What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

The name "Pacific Waste Patch" has made many people believe that this area is a large and continuous fragment of fragile sea like a bottle and other garbage - it should be visible through satellite photos and aerial photographs Literally Junk Island. It's not. Although higher concentrations of garbage may be found in this area, most garbage is actually a small floating plastic piece that can not be seen with the naked eye.

Marine garbage is constantly mixed by wind and waves and is widely dispersed over the large surface area and the entire water column. You can see little or no debris in the water through the Pacific "garbage field" area. It is also difficult to estimate the size of these 'plaques'. The boundary and contents are constantly changing due to flow and wind. Regardless of the size, quality and location of "garbage patch", artificial garbage does not belong to our ocean and waterways, so we have to deal with it.

The fragments found in every part of the ocean are easily ingested by the species of the sea and cause damage such as suffocation, hunger and so on.

The so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch (or Pacific Garbage Vortex) - mass plastic waste in the ocean - is actually two separate entities. Pacific garbage patch in the west (between Japan and Hawaii) and east (between Hawaii and California). The total area of ​​the two plaques is estimated to be about 1.5 times that of US.src through a thin current connection called the subtropical convergence zone. It is considered to be the largest landfill site on Earth. Marine organisms and birds - the most famous albatrosses - are often misunderstood as floating matter as food, plastics will destroy and die the digestive system of these animals. Man eventually consumes this plastic - this material will be broken down into increasingly smaller particles, which are then eaten by very small creatures, then eaten by their carnivores, the food chain will be on our table Wait for it to reach.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific Pacific Garbage Swirl, extends to the waters from North America's west coast to Japan. The patch actually consists of garbage patches in the west in the vicinity of Japan and a garbage patch in the eastern part between Hawaii and California. These rotating debris areas are connected by subtropical convergence zones in the North Pacific, located hundreds of kilometers north of Hawaii. It is a place where warm water from the South Pacific encounters cold 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 the North Pacific subtropical circulation. The circulation of the ocean is a circular ocean current system formed by the wind pattern of the earth and the force generated by the rotation of the planet. These four currents move clockwise with an area of ​​20 million square kilometers (7.7 million square miles).