the grate pacific garbage patch
why is dangerus
the conseguences are primary at the marine life
fish and other confused nurdles for food because they are the size of smaller fis
theese a plastic material trap acquatic life and polison them
the tiny bits of plastic can be confused for food by fish or sea animal get trapped in the plastic
the other conseguences: ocean microplastic are entering the food chain. how many microplastic might be consuming from fish?
why can't be seen from above?
it cannot be seen from an airplane or by a satellite because all of the plastic it just below on the sea
who discovered it?
how large and deep is it?
a larger problem
what can be done?
what's that
charles moore, surfer, sailor, volounter environalist discoved it in 1997 returning to california from hawii
it cover 1.6 milion square kilometers an area twice the size of texas or three time the size of france. it's the below the water superface down to 10 meters in the dept
where is it?
it's in the nord of pacific ocean in area whit high pressure where wind cause the water to swill.
it's a big plastic island composed of a little non degradabile plastic. it's a big environamnet problem
these tiny bits of plastic are called nurdles
they are resistant to the degradation
how to clean up what alerady exist
the 19 years old boyan slat fonded the ocean cleanup in the 2013
a clean up cost is difficultto determine and the governaments don't come to an agreement
the first thing is recycle plastic
far better is to use the plastic or non REDUCTION