{"id":529287,"date":"2010-04-16T00:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T04:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/second-garbage-patch-confirmed-in-atlantic-ocean\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T00:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T04:30:05","slug":"second-garbage-patch-confirmed-in-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529287","title":{"rendered":"Second Garbage Patch Confirmed in Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/ocean-of-plastic1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5697\" title=\"ocean-of-plastic1\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/files\/2010\/04\/ocean-of-plastic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Planet Earth\u2019s oceans now have a second confirmed garbage patch filled with plastic detritus.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The discovery of the first garbage patch is credited to Charles Moore, an ocean researcher who discovered the large patch of plastic floating in the Pacific in 1997. Now the Atlantic can lay claim to a human produced waste patch all of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Wife and husband team Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in February between Bermuda and Portugal\u2019s mid-Atlantic Azores Islands. In the middle of the Atlantic is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sargasso_Sea\" >Sargasso Sea<\/a>, an area surrounded by various ocean currents including the well known Gulf Stream. The pair took samples ever 100 miles (160 kilometres) and each time they pulled up their trawl it was full of plastic. <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/second-garbage-patch-confirmed-in-atlantic-ocean\/#more-5695\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planet Earth\u2019s oceans now have a second confirmed garbage patch filled with plastic detritus. The discovery of the first garbage patch is credited to Charles Moore, an ocean researcher who discovered the large patch of plastic floating in the Pacific in 1997. Now the Atlantic can lay claim to a human produced waste patch all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}