Why is the world's biggest landfill in the Pacific Ocean?

In the vast north part of the North Pacific there is a slowly moving clockwise spiral flow generated by the North Pacific subtropical circulation, high pressure airflow system. This area is full of small phytoplankton, but few big fish and mammals. Because of the lack of large fish and wind, fishermen and crews rarely cycle through their circulation. But besides plankton, garbage, millions of pounds, mainly plastics. It is the world's largest landfill floating in the middle of the ocean.

This circulation actually creates a mass of two large garbage known as garbage in the western Pacific and garbage fields in the east Pacific. These are collectively referred to as Great Pacific Trash Fields. Eastern garbage patches are spreading between Hawaii and California; scientists estimate it is twice the size of Texas [Source: Los Angeles Times]. Western Garbage Patch is located in eastern Japan and western Hawaii. All the rotating garbage is huge, collecting garbage from all over the world. These patches are connected by a 6,000 mile flow called the subtropical convergence zone. As a result of the survey, we found that a large amount of garbage is accumulated in the asymmetric belt.

The garbage patch poses many dangers to marine life, fishery, tourism industry. But before discussing it it is important to see the role of plastics. Plastics accounts for 90% of all garbage in the world ocean [Source: Los Angeles Times]. In 2006, the United Nations Environment Program estimated that there were 46,000 floating plastics per square mile of the ocean [Source: UNEP]. In some areas, the amount of plastics exceeds the number of plankton at a ratio of 6: 1. Approximately 10% of plastics out of more than 200 billion pounds produced annually in the world finally enter the ocean. [Source: Greenpeace] 70% of them eventually submerged and destroyed the seafloor creatures [Source: Greenpeace]. The rest will float; most of them will end with gyro field and massive garbage patches formed there, and some of them will eventually be washed away on the far coast.

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.

In the eastern part of Japan and the western part of Hawaii, in the Pacific there is a shameful monument to contemporary capitalism and consumerism, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is the largest "landfill" in the world, except that it is in the ocean. It is about twice the size of Texas state, and even if the depth is different, depending on the location it is 100 feet deep. This is about 5 million tons of waste, 90% of which is plastic. Some scientists estimate that 200 million tons of plastic fragments are floating in the sea. This calculation assumes that only 5% of the world's plastics finally enter the ocean. Most plastics will sink to the ocean floor or float on the coast of the world. Most of them are divided into small pieces that can be eaten by marine life we ​​consume in some way. The results are being investigated, but we know that they are not good

The North Pacific is the world's most polluted sea. It is estimated to have 2 trillion pieces of plastic, accounting for one-third of the total amount of marine plastic. The North Pacific Canyon accumulated garbage between Japan and the United States and formed a large Pacific trash spot. There are 1.3 million plastic in the Indian Ocean. As a result of the circulation of the Indian Ocean in 2010, Indian Ocean trash lumps were discovered in the central Indian Ocean. Both the Indus and the Ganges are listed as one of the ten most contaminated rivers flowing into the Indian Ocean.