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    I picked the Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch from all other options because I use products made of plastic daily and I wanted to learn something new. From the documentary title, I knew I would learn something new because I never heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and I did not know what to expect. One of the main ideas that I took away from the documentary was the fact that plastic is virtually impossible to destroy. In the documentary, it illustrated how the beaches mostly consisted small pieces of plastic instead of sand and how several hundreds of plastic products were washed off to shore which were made a couple of decades ago. Further, it really disturbed me by the effect of plastic on the life of animals and its marine environment. In one scene, it showed how the dead bodies of albatross decomposed but the small pieces of plastic will…

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    The Plastic Era The article “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” written by Matt Rose and Sean Cusik, is about the texas size garbage patch that is in our ocean roughly 1,000 miles off California's coast, and how our everyday plastics end up there. Having this trash in our ocean not only contaminates, it also makes in inhabitable for sea life. These plastics not only suffocate and trap animals, they also will never break down fully. Rose and Cusik write that we need to buy items that will…

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also known as the Pacific Trash Vortex) is a 1.6 million kilometer patch of garbage. This means it is more than double the size of Texas. It is located between the state of California and Hawaii. It was discovered in 1977 by yachtsman, Charles Moore, on his way home to Los Angeles and was named by Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer, who specialized in following ocean currents to track down lost cargo from planes and ships. Many people think that the…

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    Is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch worth cleaning. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of collected trash in the middle of the ocean, sitting between California and Hawaii. The trash travels from land and into the ocean due to wind, where circular ocean currents called gyres, trap the trash in the center known as the convergence zone. It’s estimated that there is millions of pounds of trash in the Garbage patch, most of which is plastic. The plastic is breaking into tiny pieces and is…

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    The film Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a documentary directed by Angela Sun and was released on April 22, 2014. This film dives into the desolate "island" known as the great pacific garbage patch which is actually not an island despite what people think. This "island" actually lies underneath the water's surface, which leads to it being unnoticed by the public. Plastic is the main cause of this issue and not only litters the oceans, but it is also harming the marine life.…

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch The Great Pacific Garbage is not very known around the world. For those that do know about it, it is not for a positive effect. It is the world’s largest garbage dump located right in our backyard; The Pacific Ocean. It is killing plant, animal and any living organism in The Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is devastating due to its vast size, contaminating materials, marine deaths, and effects to and from humans and, what can we as humans do to fix…

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    I always thought that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, commonly known as Garbage Island, was a huge, waterborne landfill—sort of like a massive hair clog in a big drain, spinning round and round. In reality, it's not so much an island of trash as a soupy area of litter, mostly in the form of tiny flecks of plastic, studded here and there with old fishing gear and children's toys. If you were to sail right through the Patch, the water itself probably wouldn't look too remarkable, unless you…

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    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…

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    The great pacific garbage patch Amirah Osama Introduction: The ocean contains 2.2 million (±1.3 million) species. (Mora. C, 2011) The survivial of these species is reliant on the health of the ocean ….. (talk about ocean pollution in general)……In the ocean gyres can be found. They are formed by winds, rotation of the earth and ocean currents (De Wolff, K., 2014). These gyres move in a circulatory movement, similar to a whirlpool and are able to suck in objects. The objects have been…

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    The video film produced by Michael J. Lutman informs the viewer of the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”. This video inspired by yacht racing Captain Charles Moore, includes the collaboration of Algalita Research Foundation and the 5 Gyres Institute and the goal is to raise awareness about buoyant plastics. The central goal of 5 Gyres institute is “What about the rest of the world’s oceans?” A group of 13 people created the documentary information presented as “Plasticized”. A four thousand mile…

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