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Bin in Hawaii confirmed to be Japan tsunami debris

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Three dead birds? Something's Amiss?

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12th confirmed piece to hit U.S. or Canada waters

So someone's counting ?

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Someone needs to go out and bring the floating dock to port. Take it to dry dock and remove any "invasive" spices. It would be a lot easier than trying to do it on the beach.

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If they know where it is can they not send out a ship to collect it before it reaches land?

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The rest of the debris I mean.

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just push it back out to sea.....mother nature will sort it out lol

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One million to 2 million tons of debris remain in the ocean, but only about 5% of that could reach American and Canadian shorelines

Which basically computes as 50 to 100 thousand tons of debris, which is still a lot.

But what worries me more is the potential impact of the debris lost at sea, about all that garbage being broken down to smaller pieces, and sinking down to the bottom of the oceans ... a place we know very little about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

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