http://www.metafilter.com/tags/resinpellets Posts tagged with 'resinpellets' at MetaFilter. Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:40:27 -0800 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:40:27 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64971/Whirling%2DVortex%2Dof%2DStupidity <a href="http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2006/11/the-north-pacific-trash-vortex">The North Pacific Trash Vortex</a> - <a href="http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2006/08/marine_debris_the_trash_vortex.html">Researchers have discovered </a>a <a href="http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/trashing-our-oceans"><a href="http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/our-oceans/pollution/trash-vortex#">Texas-sized</a> area</a> of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special">(mostly plastic)</a> <a href="http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=06-P13-00046&segmentID=4">rubbish</a> <a href="http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N05174536">floating in the Pacific Ocean</a>. On the most recent episode of QI, Fry posed this question: "what is the largest man-made object in the world?" The answer: The North Pacific Trash Vortex. The North Pacific sub-tropical gyre covers a large area of the Pacific in which the water circulates clockwise in a slow spiral, which tends to force any floating material into the low energy central area of the gyre. Given its size, I tried looking for a satellite image of it, but have failed so far. Anyone know of one? tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64971 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:40:27 -0800 environment greenpeace litter marinelife ocean pacific plastic plasticbags QI resinpellets rubbish sealife stephenfry trashvortex waste chuckdarwin