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Huge Garbage Patch Found in Atlantic Too

Article Credit: Richard A. Lovett for National Geographic News

Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean – a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say.

“Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

“But this issue has essentially been ignored in the Atlantic.”

The newly described garbage patch sits hundreds of miles off the North American coast. Although its east-west span is unknown, the patch covers a region between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude – roughly the distance from Cuba to Virginia.

As with the Pacific garbage patch, plastic can circulate in this part of the Atlantic Ocean for years, posing health risks to fish, seabirds, and other marine animals that accidentally eat the litter.

Full Article at National Geographic News

Article Credit: Richard A. Lovett for National Geographic News

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Clean Energy Week

Feb 1^st-5 is clean energy week. In honor of clean energy week organizations nationwide are working together to put clean energy at the front of national policy. These organizations aim to boost policy in the clean energy sector in order to boost the number of green jobs as well as help America become a leader in clean energy generation.

A gathering of conferences, workshops, outreach programs, and rallies in Washington D.C. will be held to educate government and industry members on applications for clean energy and the benefits of clean energy.

For more information visit: http://www.cleanenergyweek.org/

This would be an excellent week to let  your local policy makers know your opinions and demands of the clean energy sector going into the future.

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