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Jetée · 04-23-2011, 02:30 PM

In 1992, 28,800 rubber ducks were lost at sea. What happened to them is the subject of Donovan Hohn's book 'Moby-Duck'.

Journalist Donovan Hohn decided to track down 28,800 missing
bath toys lost at sea. What he found:

“When I set out following these toys, I didn’t expect it to turn into an environmental story but I very
quickly learned … that unlike the flotsam of ages past, the flotsam of today — much of it plastic — persists.
It lasts visibly for decades and chemically for centuries because it doesn’t biodegrade.”

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Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	[Read of Interest] When 28,800 Bath Toys Are Lost At Sea In 1992, 28,800 rubber ducks were lost at sea. What happened to them is the subject of Donovan Hohn's book 'Moby-Duck'. Journalist Donovan Hohn decided to track down 28,800 missing bath toys lost at sea. What he found: “When I set out following these toys, I didn’t expect it to turn into an environmental story but I very quickly learned … that unlike the flotsam of ages past, the flotsam of today — much of it plastic — persists. It lasts visibly for decades and chemically for centuries because it doesn’t biodegrade.” READ MORE... [NPR.] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi