Tag: Debris

A United Airlines Boeing 777 airplane experienced a right engine failure and scattered parts over a Broomfield neighborhood and Broomfield Commons Park. The plane was bound for Honolulu, Hawaii and returned to Denver International Airport executing an emergency landing. Source link

A zone of plastic as big as an island, maybe even a continent, eddies and accumulates in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California. Ocean gyres, and in particular, the one known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, churns plastic from around the Pacific into a soupy deathtrap for ocean creatures. The United Nations has projected that by 2050 there will be more plastic ...