{"id":333,"date":"2008-02-04T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2008-02-04T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T17:50:41","slug":"huge-plastic-patch-in-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Huge Plastic Patch in Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,23599,23156017-1702,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">News.com.au<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has been described as the world&#8217;s largest rubbish dump, or the Pacific plastic soup, and it is starting to alarm scientists.<\/p>\n<p>It is a vast area of plastic debris and other flotsam drifting in the northern Pacific Ocean, held there by swirling ocean currents.<\/p>\n<p>Discovered in 1997 by American sailor Charles Moore, what is also called the great Pacific garbage patch is now alarming some with its ever-growing size and possible impact on human health.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;patch&#8221; is in fact two massive, linked areas of circulating rubbish, says Dr Marcus Eriksen, research director of the US-based Algalita Marine Research Foundation, founded by Moore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link:<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,23599,23156017-1702,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"> News.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong> via <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transworldsurf.com\/article.jsp?ID=1000014402\" target=\"_blank\">Transworldsurf.com]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to News.com.au: It has been described as the world&#8217;s largest rubbish dump, or the Pacific plastic soup, and it is starting to alarm scientists. It is a vast area of plastic debris and other flotsam drifting in the northern Pacific Ocean, held there by swirling ocean currents. Discovered in 1997 by American sailor Charles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}