Plastic Beach – December 16, 2009

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a king who was cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity. A recent beach cleanup on Midway Atoll made us feel just like Sisyphus.

Watch the video here:

There are millions of tons of plastics in our oceans and these are constantly fragmenting into smaller and smaller pieces that are scattered throughout the water column and present, in different densitites, throughout all the world's oceans.

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by: Manuel Maqueda

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