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To: Ruffian who wrote (280284)	11/18/2008 6:50:23 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794271

re Styrofoam cross... a very toxic substance... (takes a minute to load.... scary stuff...) cpac.ca more Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, October 19, 2007 At the start of the Academy Award-winning movie "American Beauty," a character videotapes a plastic grocery bag as it drifts into the air, an event he casts as a symbol of life's unpredictable currents, and declares the romantic moment as a "most beautiful thing." To the eyes of an oceanographer, the image is pure catastrophe. In reality, the rogue bag would float into a sewer, follow the storm drain to the ocean, then make its way to the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists. The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii. .......................................................