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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, (also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, ) is a patch characterized by exceptionally high concentrations of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge, and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was formed by marine pollution gatehred by ocean currents. The size of it is unknown, but it's estimated that the patch is 700,000 square kilometres to more than 15,000,000 square kilometres
The plastic thats in this horrible ocean has ended up in the stomachs of marine birds, animals and their young.. The toxin in the plasitc killed a lot of animals and people because the animals eat the plastic and drink the water.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Scientists and Evronmentalists are saying that it might be possible to clean it up. They estimated that there is over 3.5 million tons of trash in the garbage patch that came from all over the world. The ways people are thinking to clean up the patch is to drag nets to collect the garbage.Others were passive, consisting of large floating receptacles placed near highly concentrated areas and then picked up later to dispose of its contents back on land.
Reuse Reduce Recycle!! If you do this it will reduce the amount of trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and so animals and humans won't die
2cool4skool25 added this comment 2011-01-24 15:40:25-06:00
This is a school project :)
alyssareitlo added this comment 2011-01-25 21:04:16-06:00
Wow nice glog. So colorful... Love it even more than I love u.. :O Naah. Not possible. <3
2cool4skool25 added this comment 2011-01-24 15:40:25-06:00
This is a school project :)
alyssareitlo added this comment 2011-01-25 21:04:16-06:00
Wow nice glog. So colorful... Love it even more than I love u.. :O Naah. Not possible. <3