"Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion"
Tracking the Ocean's Flotsam and Jetsam Story aired: Monday, April 23, 2007
Did you know that there is a floating patch of garbage somewhere in the Pacific between Hawaii and California so big it takes a week for a ship to cut through? It's called the "eastern garbage patch," an estimated three million ton garbage hairball covering an area the size of Alaska and thick with shampoo caps, water bottles, plastic bags and fishing nets.
This is just one of the fascinating and disturbing facts about garbage and sea currents featured in the children's book: "Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam and the Science of Ocean Motion."
To mark Earth Day, we speak to the books author, Dr. Loree Griffin Burns.
