Great Pacific Garbage Patch

and the health of our planet are all in danger as these numbers continue to rise. In the North Pacific Ocean, there is a large mass of garbage about the size of Australia. Here, 750,000 micro plastic pieces can be found per square kilometer. The marine life is absolutely riddled with plastics an other garbage. All the garbage is moved to this specific spot called the “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” by ocean currents that create a vortex that makes it virtually impossible for trash to ride…

large wave, full of garbage, comes crashing down towards you and your boat. Sadly this is not the future, nor an imaginary place, it is the world we live in today. This place I describe is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is about 172,973,767 sq acres and is as big as Texas. The garbage patch was predicted in 1988 by Charles Moore, but no one took action to prevent this disaster. All this garbage was sucked in from rivers and lakes and created one big patch in the Pacific Ocean.…

Every day, there are over 700 marine animals who are exposed to plastic garbage (Lacurci, J., 2015). This leads to having over 100,000 marine animals and one million seabirds die due to the plastic garbage in the water every year (Facts About Marine Litter). Entanglement is a huge issue with the increasing amount of plastic debris in the ocean. The 3 animals that most commonly get entangled…

impurities does vaporized it won’t make any difference it would still causing pollution (Moore). Charles J. Moore went 10 times to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (“one of five major garbage patches drifting in the oceans north and south of the Equator at the latitude of our great terrestrial”) with a team of scientist. However, in his last trip to Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2014 Moore said that he was shocked of the increment of the quantity of plastic waste since his last trip in 2009…

and many other types of debris. This can be caused by poorly managed landfill sites, sewer overflows, manufacturing sites, illegal dumping on domestic and industrial trash, and street litter. The great pacific garbage patch is not the only garbage patch but it is the biggest one out of the five garbage patches on our Earth. 20% of all the trash comes from ships and platforms offshore the other 80% comes from the wind blowing litter and the tides picking up litter. It injures coral reefs…

By the time I finish this sentence, 12 million pounds of carbon dioxide will have been released into the air. By the time I finish talking, 36,000kgs, or 6 rubbish trucks worth of rubbish, mostly plastic will be dumped into the ocean. By this time tomorrow, 5000 people will have died from drinking contaminated water. Do you want to be remembered as part of the species that killed the earth? At this rate, that’s how it’s going to become. Over 30 billion tons of urban sewage is dumped into lakes,…

“Since humans are not marine creatures, these spaces can easily be regarded as socially irrelevant” (Longo and Clark). Many sea creatures mistake floating pieces of plastic for food. If an animal eats this garbage, its chemical properties will dissolve into that animal’s muscles and organs. And this process does not stop there. Once that animal is consumed by another, the same chemical properties transfer to the other and so on (Tibbetts). And this epidemic…

foods. worldwide annually use for grocery bags is about 1 trillion every year.In an article published by the journal science in 2015 conducted an experiment saying that 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in ocean every year. Obviously, that's a great amount of plastic ending up in the ocean and people already have discovered places in the ocean full of plastics just floating in the ocean. The same journal of science estimated by the year 2025 there would be 20 times the 8 million metric…

Today in the world one of the biggest pollution issues come from the ocean. Scientists have been studying for years on how to stop the pollution that one has created. If we look bad to the beginning of when America was founded we can see a different between the ways that the land was being treated. The Indians treated the land with respect but it seems the more one looks into the future the people are treating it worst and worst. The ocean is a place one loves to travel to each year. One hates…

the brunt of the human race. This, however, is not true as is becoming increasingly apparent. Over a few decades, humans have managed to dump tons upon tons of garbage into the ocean. Around 80 percent of marine litter originates on land, and most of that is plastic. The conservative estimate is that around 4.8 million metric tons of garbage, specifically plastic, is realised into world’s ocean each year. Some researchers believe the real number to be close to 12.7 million metric tons. To put…