Altered Oceans

Rick Loomis

Los Angeles Times

Tons of garbage that swept down the Los Angeles River after a storm is corralled by a boom in Long Beach, Ca. Most plastic trash makes its way to the ocean and can be found washed up on beaches around the world. "Every little piece of plastic manufactured in the past 50 years that made it into the ocean is still out there somewhere," Anthony L. Andrady, a polymer chemist at the Research Triangle Institute said. "Because there is no effective mechanism to break it down."

Rick Loomis, "Altered Oceans," in POYi Archive, Item #45164, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/45164 (accessed November 22, 2024).