The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Plastic If you are now looking around your house, I can almost guarantee you will see plastic somewhere. From toothbrush to back clothing, it is used for almost all uses. In fact, today there is no plastic life, and most of us are not even impossible. Plastics looks like a great material; it is rugged and very durable, but these properties make plastics very harmful. As far as we know, plastics are not biodegradable and are one of the most commonly used materials for humans in the future, which causes major problems.

Some people call "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" and others call it "Pacific Garbage Swirl", but regardless of its name, it is the world's largest "landfill". Among them are everything from plastic meshes to bottles and bags, buckets, paint rollers, hula hoops and medical instruments. However, most garbage patches are not big, they are composed of microplastic which is invisible to the naked eye to form pure sea water plastic soup. Filter the marine animals to take in these plastic granules and the toxins they contain and then deliver them to the food chain and ultimately to humans

Unfortunately, the influence of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is far beyond view. According to a recent survey by The Ocean Cleanup, 84% of the plastic at the Great Pacific landfill contains harmful chemical pollutants. This will affect the ocean in the form of increased acidification, but to be frank, in the long run, we do not know the environmental impact of these chemicals. But this is not the worst. Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the five revolution in the world. There, plastics are beginning to accumulate at astonishing rates. In the North Pacific, the South Pacific, the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, there is a unique patch that slowly spreads to the sea.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific Pacific Garbage Swirl, extends to the waters of North America from the west coast to Japan. The patch actually consists of garbage patches in the west in the vicinity of Japan and garbage patches in the eastern part between Hawaii and California. These rotating debris areas are connected by a North Pacific subtropical convergence belt several hundred kilometers north of Hawaii. This confluence is where warm water from the South Pacific meets the cooler water from the North Pole. This area is like an expressway that moves garbage from one patch to the other. The whole Great Pacific Garbage Patch is surrounded by subtropical circulation in the North Pacific. The circulation of the ocean is a circular ocean current system formed by the wind pattern of the earth and the force generated by rotation of the planet. These four currents move clockwise with an area of ​​20 million square kilometers (7.7 million square miles).