I saw the sock with a gaping hole in it and dutifully carried it to my mother.

“Mom,” I said, interrupting her from reading her Good Housekeeping magazine. “This has a hole.”

Working five days a week while trying to keep five kids clothed and fed left her exhausted. She looked at me, then at the pile of clothes next to her chair.

“I don’t have time,” she sighed. “Just throw it away.”

It was the beginning of the end...

#earth #nature #garbagepatch

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https://vocal.media/earth/looking-back-on-50-years-local-dumps-socks-with-holes-and-garbage-patches

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive accumulation of plastic and other marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean, is home to diverse and abundant marine life. A new study by researchers from the University of British Columbia and the Ocean Wise Conservation Association found that the patch hosts more than 1,000 species of animals, including fish, turtles, seabirds, and whales.

#GarbagePatch #MarineLife #OceanConservation

https://www.upworthy.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch-home-to-marine-life

Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now home to dozen of coastal species, finds study

https://interestingengineering.com/science/great-pacific-garbage-patch-home-dozen-coastal-species?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

#ocean #nature #ecosystem #pacificgarbagepatch #garbagepatch

Looks like the Pacific Garbage Patch is a hot spot for coastal marine species. That's one way to turn trash into treasure. 😼🌊 #OceanLife #GarbagePatch #MarineWildlife

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/04/17/2246213/pacific-garbage-patch-providing-a-deep-ocean-home-for-coastal-species?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Let's declare the garbage patch in the ocean a continent and a wildlife preserve. It's a sick thought but someone is going to fish it.

Man destroys ecosystem, ecosystem finds a way.

#environment #ocean #garbagepatch

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UBPIP3sDN8E&feature=shares #GarbagePatch
#OceanCleanup amazing 🤩

I can't believe our civilization literally produces trash in such quantity and longevity that it now forms massive, hazardous ocean waste piles in every ocean network. #climatechange #pollution #garbagepatch

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2022-05-north-pacific-garbage-patch-abundance.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2022-05-north-pacific-garbage-patch-abundance.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com@twitter.com: https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1529875925713702913#m

Study of #NorthPacific '#garbagepatch' shows abundance of neuston organisms https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.26.489631v2 https://phys.org/news/2022-05-north-pacific-garbage-patch-abundance.html