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  • Special Report: Plastic Island

    From CNN Breaking News@VERT to no-reply@siteservices.cnn.com on Wed Nov 30 21:09:49 2016
    On the beach lies a motorcycle helmet, a mannequin's head, an umbrella handle and a flip-flop. They didn't fall from a plane or off a ship, and there aren't any civilians living here who could have left them behind.

    They were washed onto Midway Atoll [1]with the tide, most likely part of an enormous plastic garbage patch spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Some of the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags you discarded are probably in there.

    Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Some of it kills the birds on the atoll. Some sinks deep into the ocean and can end up in plankton. Some, including the likely carcinogen styrene, gets back to us through the food chain.

    "These are the classic 'canary in the coal mine' scenarios," said Matthew Brown with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

    View CNN's special report -- Plastic Island: How our throwaway culture is turning paradise into a graveyard[2].

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  • From Accession@VERT/PHARCYDE to CNN Breaking News on Thu Dec 1 07:36:52 2016
    Hello CNN,

    On 30 Nov 16 21:09, CNN Breaking News wrote to no-reply@siteservices.cnn.com:

    On the beach lies a motorcycle helmet, a mannequin's head, an umbrella handle and a flip-flop. They didn't fall from a plane or off a ship,
    and there aren't any civilians living here who could have left them behind.

    They were washed onto Midway Atoll [1]with the tide, most likely part
    of an enormous plastic garbage patch spinning in the middle of the
    Pacific Ocean. Some of the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags you discarded are probably in there.

    Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Some of it kills the birds on the
    atoll. Some sinks deep into the ocean and can end up in plankton.
    Some, including the likely carcinogen styrene, gets back to us through
    the food chain.

    "These are the classic 'canary in the coal mine' scenarios," said
    Matthew Brown with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

    There is no way in hell individual people are doing this. They should probably take it up with BigCorp or possibly garbage companies with dump sites near water. "Water bottles and bags you discarded" seems like they're pointing their
    fingers at us.. which is BS. Most people get rid of their garbage the way they're supposed to. What happens after that is what needs to be studied a little further.

    Regards,
    Nick

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