The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is just what its sounds like. Not one, but two immense clusters of man-made trash concentrated in the North Pacific Ocean. One is off the east coast of Japan, the other between Hawaii and California, often described as being as being ‘as large as Texas!’ The name may lead youContinue reading “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is as Big as Texas”
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Life Before Earth Day and the Environmental Movement
In 1969, Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River was so polluted with industrial waste runoff it Literally Caught Fire! The Potomac, Chicago, Delaware and Hudson rivers all stunk to high heaven with millions of gallons of industrial waste deposited every single day.