It’s 420 Expunge Weed Records, Garbage Patch Ecosystem 04.20.23
The Daily Zeitgeist
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The Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now So Big and Permanent That a Co-City Ecosystem Is Thriving on It
The Pacific garbage patch is now so big and permanent that a co-coastal ecosystem is thriving on it according to scientists. The majority of the plastic in this Texas two times the size of Texas garbage gyre comes from one industry the fishing industry. Because of all the plastic bottles you use like those every plastic bottle you used has ended up in the middle of the Pacific on this floating island. It's actually one industry the fishing industry is responsible for at least one Texas of the entire garbage patch.
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