Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Hank tells us about the enormous concentrations of plastic debris floating around in the Pacific Ocean, why they're there and why they're a problem. Like SciShow: http://www.facebook.com/scishow...
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You know those plastic stickers that they put on apples? What do you do with that sticker? Do you always walk it over to a trash can or do you just kind of flick it off onto the floor of your car where it ends up stuck to your shoe and then dragged onto the street and then maybe when it rains it finds its way down a sewer grate and onto a stream and then a river and then the ocean, where it bobs along until it meets all its little plastic brothers and sisters at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Well now hopefully you feel sufficiently guilty and will watch the rest of this episode. A lot of our trash hangs out in the North Pacific in an area Called the North Pacific Gyre. A gyre is a big system of ocean currents that collide to form a kind of ...
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You know those plastic stickers that they put on apples? What do you do with that sticker? Do you always walk it over to a trash can or do you just kind of flick it off onto the floor of your car where it ends up stuck to your shoe and then dragged onto the street and then maybe when it rains it finds its way down a sewer grate and onto a stream and then a river and then the ocean, where it bobs along until it meets all its little plastic brothers and sisters at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Well now hopefully you feel sufficiently guilty and will watch the rest of this episode. A lot of our trash hangs out in the North Pacific in an area Called the North Pacific Gyre. A gyre is a big system of ocean currents that collide to form a kind of ...
