TheOcean Cleanup estimatesthat the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies 1.6 million square kilometers, about twice the size of Texas, or three times the size of France. It's estimated to spanaround 620,000 square miles. However, the actual size of the island of trash is u...
Garbage Island, the Trash Vortex, or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most disturbing examples of consumer waste and plastics damaging our planet and ourselves.
Many communities and even some small island nations have eliminated the use of plastic bags. On the Hawaiian Islands, cleanup programs bring volunteers to the beaches to pick up trash, but some beaches, even those subjected to regular cleanings, are still covered in layers of trash se...
Many communities and even some small island nations have eliminated the use of plastic bags. On the Hawaiian Islands, cleanup programs bring volunteers to the beaches to pick up trash, but some beaches, even those subjected to regular cleanings, are still covered in layers of trash several ...
These results prove that plastic pollution at sea, while densely distributed within the patch, is scattered and does not form a solid mass, thus demystifying the trash island concept. Modelled mass concentration By size classes Vertical distribution The Ocean Cleanup measured the vertical distrib...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N. Although many scientists suggest that the patch extends over a very wide area, with ...
This is nothing but bad news considering that there is even more trash riding the currents as you sit and read this now, destined to add to the island’s growth. A 10 mile-wide fleet of plastic Taco Bell take-out bags. 80,000 Nike running shoes involved in a containership spill in ...
Young, L. C., Vanderlip, C., Duffy, D. C., Afanasyev, V. & Shaffer, S. A. Bringing home the trash: do colony-based differences in foraging distribution lead to increased plastic ingestion in Laysan albatrosses?PLoS One4, e7623,https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007623(2009). ...
Plastic has increasingly become a ubiquitous substance in the ocean. Due to its size and color, animals confuse the plastic for food, causing malnutrition; it poses entanglement risks and threatens their overall behavior, health, and existence. ...
The patch is bounded by an enormous gyre –the biggest of five huge, spinning circular currents in the world’s oceans that pull trash towards the center and trap it there, creating a garbage vortex. It’s a mistake to think of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as an island of trash, ...