The Plastic-Trash Continent

Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean

"..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.."

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Our kids as laboratories

And guinnea pigs.

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Tests reveal high chemical levels in kids' bodies

"..Most Americans haven't heard of body burden testing, but it's a hot topic among environmentalists and public health experts who warn that the industrial chemicals we come into contact with every day are accumulating in our bodies and endangering our health in ways we have yet to understand..."

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