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Fri Apr 12, 2013, 06:06 PM Apr 2013

Welcome to Garbage Patch State, Where Plastic Rules

By Ben Richmond

Today in Paris, a new nation was born. In the modern way, the news reaches America via Facebook, with these historic words:

it is with great emotion that we announce

that today our Nation has been regognized (sic) at the UNESCO in Paris,

what since yesterday, was called a “territory” is now a Federal State


THE GARBAGE PATCH STATE.

The ocean-blue flag was flying in France for one nation, suspended in the seawater, made of tiny bits of plastic.

In an effort to raise awareness of the five big patches of plastic waste forming in the centers of the ocean’s gyres--to say nothing of the particulate plastic choking the Great Lakes--UNESCO is declaring them to be a new nation at the “High Seas, Our Future! Conference,” happening this week in the French capital.



Read more: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/welcome-to-garbage-patch-state-where-plastic-rules

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