Davy Jones locker March 28, 2006
I have just been reading that there is an incredible 265 million tones of man made rubbish and waste lying at the bottom of the Mediterranean.
Can you believe it? Who left it there and when are they coming back to pick it up?
The article went to outline a few interesting facts such as:
It takes a newspaper 6 weeks to decompose in the sea.
3 months for a cardboard box to breakdown.
A steel can takes 80 years.
An aluminum can 100 years.
The humble plastic bag 300 years.
But the daddy of them all is polystyrene and the plastic bottle which will take around 500 years to disappear.
However, some of the rubbish will take centuries to breakdown.
Al - zoozoo2
- Posted in : scuba diving
- Author : Al
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