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Title: Tonnes of garbage cleaned up from Galapagos coast
Post by: rangerrebew on March 18, 2018, 01:26:56 pm

Tonnes of garbage cleaned up from Galapagos coast
March 18, 2018
 
Officials at Ecuador's Galapagos National Park say they have collected 22 tonnes of garbage since January off the coasts of the pristine archipelago, some of it from as far away as Asia.

The coastal garbage cleanup is aimed at studying "the possible arrival of invasive species in the waste swept in by the ocean currents," the Park said in a statement late Saturday.

The Galapagos, the Pacific archipelago of volcanic islands that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, are located about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) off the coast of Ecuador.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-03-tonnes-garbage-galapagos-coast.html#jCp

Title: Re: Tonnes of garbage cleaned up from Galapagos coast
Post by: Suppressed on March 19, 2018, 04:21:16 pm

To give a frame of reference, 22 tonnes is about the load of a standard dump truck.

Title: Re: Tonnes of garbage cleaned up from Galapagos coast
Post by: dfwgator on March 19, 2018, 04:33:28 pm

Quote from: Suppressed on March 19, 2018, 04:21:16 pm

To give a frame of reference, 22 tonnes is about the load of a standard dump truck.

And what do ya get?