Plastic marine debris has become increasingly problematic. Angela Sun, a journalist from California, made a movie called, “Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” The movie is about plastic marine debris and how it affects wildlife.
Sun heard from a friend about this giant island in the Pacific Ocean called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Most people believe that the garbage patch is a very large, solid patch of garbage sitting in the Pacific Ocean. They do not know that the patch is a swirling vortex of plastic and garbage in the North Pacific Gyre. The North Pacific Gyre is 10 million square miles. The gyre has trade winds and circular currents that keeps whatever flows into it inside for months or even decades. Charles Moore discovered the patch in 1997. The patch is basically invisible as most of the debris is under the surface. To know that it was there you would have to drag a net through it. The plastic in the North Pacific Gyre outweighs surface zooplankton, the most abundant and prolific organisms on the planet, by six-to-one.
After a lot of research Sun decided that she wanted to this garbage patch herself. She went about figuring out …show more content…
Plastics that absorb harmful toxic waste such as, DDT, PCB, PAH, and BPA. PCBs and DDT are toxins that are known to disrupt reproduction in marine mammals. In humans these chemicals have been linked to liver damage, skin lesions, and cancer. BPA can be found in all of the world's oceans. It was discovered around 70 years ago. It is known to mess up humans internal signaling system. Fish are consuming these plastics. Plastics that have chemicals that cause all these problems. It makes one wonder what is in the fish on their plate. In Sun's movie Moore tells us that he has found 1-2.5 inch fish with as much as 83 pieces of plastic. More research needs to be done to find out how, or if, this affects humans consuming the sea
Sun heard from a friend about this giant island in the Pacific Ocean called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Most people believe that the garbage patch is a very large, solid patch of garbage sitting in the Pacific Ocean. They do not know that the patch is a swirling vortex of plastic and garbage in the North Pacific Gyre. The North Pacific Gyre is 10 million square miles. The gyre has trade winds and circular currents that keeps whatever flows into it inside for months or even decades. Charles Moore discovered the patch in 1997. The patch is basically invisible as most of the debris is under the surface. To know that it was there you would have to drag a net through it. The plastic in the North Pacific Gyre outweighs surface zooplankton, the most abundant and prolific organisms on the planet, by six-to-one.
After a lot of research Sun decided that she wanted to this garbage patch herself. She went about figuring out …show more content…
Plastics that absorb harmful toxic waste such as, DDT, PCB, PAH, and BPA. PCBs and DDT are toxins that are known to disrupt reproduction in marine mammals. In humans these chemicals have been linked to liver damage, skin lesions, and cancer. BPA can be found in all of the world's oceans. It was discovered around 70 years ago. It is known to mess up humans internal signaling system. Fish are consuming these plastics. Plastics that have chemicals that cause all these problems. It makes one wonder what is in the fish on their plate. In Sun's movie Moore tells us that he has found 1-2.5 inch fish with as much as 83 pieces of plastic. More research needs to be done to find out how, or if, this affects humans consuming the sea