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(Now Playing) TOXIC: Garbage Island 2 of 3

Apr 7, 2008

Come aboard as the VBS crew takes a cruise to the Northern Gyre in the Pacific Ocean, a spot where currents spin and cycle, churning up tons of plastic into a giant pool of chemical soup, flecked with bits and whole chunks of refuse that cannot biodegrade.

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I have registered here on VBS only to write about this one. This is not about pollution, this is ...
Viperalus

I have registered here on VBS only to write about this one. This is not about pollution, this is ...
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Watching it in mute would do it justice and get the point across without the whining and ...did I...

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(video playing) TOXIC: Garbage Island 2 of 3

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