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Great Pacific Garbage Patch Awareness Video

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What effects does this garbage have on the environment?

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What effects does this garbage have on the environment?

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1. What areas of the ocean or land are impacted?

-Seals and other marine mammals are at risk because they can get tangled in plastic fishing nets. They can often drown.

-They could also disturb the food web by blocking the sunlight from reaching plankton and algae below. Animals such as fish and turtles feed on algae and plankton.
-It could affect us as humans because we could be digesting contaminated fish and cause us to become ill.

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Who knows about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

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Who knows about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

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1.Did you know about this

-No I didn’t know anything about the garbage patch.

2.Why do you think such a big problem is relatively unheard of?

- I think they’re usually ignored because no one wants to take responsibility for it. Since they assume there’s nothing to do they try to keep it from the public eye.

3.How can people help spread information about this problem and/or help develop solutions?

- By spreading awareness & helping organizations come up with ways to keep the garbage patch from accumulating more trash.

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What is being done to clean up this mess? 

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What is being done to clean up this mess? 

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1. Are there any clean-up efforts?

- Because the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so far from any country’s coastline, no nation will take responsibility or provide the funding to clean it up

2. Who is helping solve this problem?

- Many individuals and international

organizations, are dedicated to not solve, but prevent the patch from growing.

3. What are some solutions to this problem?

-Scientists and explorers agree that limiting or

eliminating our use of disposable plastics and increasing our use of biodegradable resources will be the best way to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Organizations such as the Plastic Pollution Coalition and the Plastic Oceans Foundation are using social media and direct action campaigns to support individuals, manufacturers, and businesses in their transition from toxic, disposable plastics to biodegradable or reusable materials.

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1. Where did the garbage come from?

- 80% of the debris comes from land-based activities

in North America and Asia.20%of comes from boaters, offshore oil rigs, and large cargo ships that dump or lose debris directly into the water. The majority of the debris (about 705,000 tons) is fishing nets.

2. How did it come to be in the middle of the Pacific/Atlantic?

- It follows the currents toward the middle of the Pacific and then it becomes trapped.

3. What is keeping the garbage there?

- The amount of debris accumulates because much of it is not biodegradable. Many plastics, for instance, do not wear down; they simply break into tinier and tinier pieces.

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What is the Great Pacific garbage patch?

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What is the Great Pacific garbage patch?

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Marine debris is litter that ends up in oceans, seas, and other large bodies of water.