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Study Finds Lots Of Plastic Adrift In The Atlantic
Researchers say there’s a lot of plastic debris drifting in the Atlantic, north of the Caribbean.
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HONOLULU (February 24, 2010)--A high concentration of plastic debris is floating in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Caribbean, researchers say, and the principal investigator of a new study says the findings are based on more than 64,000 tiny bits of plastic collected over more than 22 years by Sea Education Association undergraduates.
Researchers believe surface currents carry the debris to the area between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude.
Similar currents also deliver trash to a spot between Hawaii and California known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Kara Lavendar Law says it's difficult to compare the two, but researchers in both places collected more than 1,000 pieces during a single tow of a net.
Researchers from SEA, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Hawaii conducted the study.
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