10-29-2007, 12:31 PM
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If there is a person in charge of the fund raising for the clinic here is another idea, go to the Cruise lines and offer to take their recyclables off their hands, and recycle them for the cash, it might help keep some the float-sum out of the ocean.
Not to hijack this thread but this following article and wikipedia explanation lead me to this thought of more recyclables. I had no idea what the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was, also called the Pacific Trash Vortex. There are some impressive maps on wikipedia and an article about it here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Gyre
sfgate.com search Morford, article
10-26 "Behold the GPGP if you're brave enough"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/26/DDHTT05F3.DTL&hw=morford&sn=003&sc=928
Just background info to help people consider the immanent need to recycle. Mahalo
mella l