Great Pacific Garbage Patch

explorers believe that the best way to accrue the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is to limit or eliminate the use of disposable plastics and increase the use of biodegradable resources in human’s everyday life. Since the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so far from any country’s coastline, no nation takes the responsibility or provides the funding to clean it up. Charles Moore, the man who discovered the vortex in 1997, says cleaning up the garbage patch would “bankrupt any country” that tried it.…

Intro: Did you know that United States uses 25 % of the world 's natural resources, but produces 30% of the world 's waste? And that garbage dumped into the ocean each year equals to about 14 billion pounds? Our world is developing more and more everyday, making life easier for humans. While this is great, our environment is affected everyday by our human footprints, and the way we live. It is the main cause of pollution, and a huge issue to us as humans, and the environment around us. According…

at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch” a discussion arises about reusable plastics. The authors asserts that we are using more one-use plastics than ever before. Sandwich bags, soda bottles, and other commonly used plastics are being dumped into landfills. Because of the quickly overflowing landfills, recycling programs began to be implemented. Unfortunately, in 2010, only about 8% of plastics were actually recycled. The vast majority instead are lost and end up in the Pacific Garbage Patch.…

Plastic bags (single shopping bags) and food related trash made up an overwhelming proportion of the garbage, making this the new scourge of society (Reade, Lou 20). Single use plastic bags, sooner, exposed the real face of the plastic’s products family. Although they were light, inexpensive, and almost indestructible, they began piling up around the world;…

When someone throws a plastic wrapper out the car window, or down the sewer drain, does it ever occur to them where that trash goes? According to litteritcostsyou.org, 1.9 billion tons of litter ends up in the ocean each year. Plastic is polluting Earth at a disturbing rate; humans are essentially killing themselves and killing everything else that surrounds them off this planet due to prolonged littering. What most people don’t know, is that litter such as plastic bags and cigarette butts, do…

Garbage relates to everything from all kinds of waste whether generated during the extraction of raw materials or after the consumption of final products. It is present everywhere, even in the middle of the oceans. Trash Inc: The Secret Life of Garbage is a documentary film showing the waste produced around the world and the life cycle of trash/garbage. The documentary explains what happens to the garbage when it’s thrown away and its impact on the people and the world. It shows how the waste…

Ocean Pollution: North Pacific Gyre filled with Plastic In 1997 a well-known chemist, scientific researcher and sea captain named Charles Moore, set sail from Hawaii back to his homeland, California after competing in a yacht race. Along the way, Captain Charles Moore had extra fuel to spare and decided to take a short cut through the low pressured winds of the north pacific gyre. As he and his crew reached the calm within the gyre, they were completely caught off guard as they noticed bits and…

Our goal is to eliminate the use of plastic bags in grocery stores and promote the use of reusable bags, which will help the environment. We are students from Penn State Brandywine, located in Media, and are doing a school project for the campus read Garbology by Edward Humes. This project is for “us,” the students, to help spread the word that plastic bags are harming the environment. We have become addicted to the convenience of plastic, and it is time for serious change. After watching…

happen? People! Guess who can stop that, EVERYONE! Innocent animals are dying because of litter in the ocean or any body of water. What are we going to do about it. So many sea animals are dying because of littering. Most of it is happening off the Pacific Coast. The animals are eating the litter and getting stuck in it. Leatherback turtles have been around for 100 million years, and they're endangered. The hammerhead shark mistakes plastic bags for jellyfish. These sharks are also…

90% of the garbage floating on the ocean's surface. It is said that there are 5.25 trillion items of plastic trash in the ocean. Around 8 million is dumped into the ocean every year, so it's like a garbage truck dumping a load of plastic into the ocean every minute. This plastic pollution also cause more than 100,00 deaths of marine animals and seabirds.…