Despite being discovered in 1997, the great Pacific garbage patch has been notoriously under-reported by the media. Much of the younger generation isn’t even aware that the Pacific ocean has been carrying the world’s biggest landfill for years. Marine and environmental experts suggest that the ...
Great Pacific Garbage Patch, zone in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii that has a high concentration of plastic waste. Ocean currents carry plastic debris into a subtropical gyre, where it remains trapped.
The first manned expedition was in 1960 when Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard took the risk and became the first to conquer the Challenger Deep for about 30 minutes. Fifty-two years later, James Cameron seized the opportunity to dive solo into this chasm in a submarine he helped design. He sp...
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There is this about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as described in National Geographic:“The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Also known as the Pacific trash vortex, the garbage patch is actually two distinct collections of debris bounded...
18. What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Actually there is more than one big garbage patch in our oceans. The two most prominent garbage patches in the North Pacific Ocean consist of marine debris, litter and very small pieces of plastic (so called micro plastics) that are unfortunately...
Visible from the West Coast of the United States (as well as North and South America), the Pacific Ocean is an impressive body of water. When we talk about the Pacific, we're discussing a major subset of the "world" or "global" ocean. That's the great, interconnected body of seawater...
The WWF has acknowledged that most of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is abandoned fishing gear rather than small individual plastic items. But the organization has still set its sights on many so-called single-use plastics used by consumers in the United States–even though the...
5. The Majority of Plastic Pollution in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Originates in Five Nations Lost fishing gear, also known as ghost gear, accounts for about 20% of all marine plastic.New researchhas found that in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the majority of floating plastics can be...
Ali learns that abandoned fishing nets comprise 46% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and that long-line fishing sets enough fishing line to wrap around the Earth 500x every day. This latter statistic is something I’m still struggling to fully wrap my head around myself. With plastic...