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What is the Atlantic Garbage Patch

dyamondwt — 2015-04-20 19:28:43 UTC

an area of man-made marine debris found floating within the North Atlantic Grye.The patch is estimated to be hundreds of kilometers across in size, with a density of over 200,000 pieces of debris per square kilometer and shifts seasonally.

dyamondwt — 2015-04-20 19:37:15 UTC

dyamondwt — 2015-04-20 19:38:38 UTC

How did this giant area of trash form

dyamondwt — 2015-04-20 19:39:27 UTC

Where-Researchers said that majority of these fragments come from consumer products that were blown out of open landfills or were tossed out by litterbugs. and only waves carry plastic as deep as 65 feet (20 meters) below the surface.

Why is it in the middle- certain places in the ocean where the waters swirl into natural, slow-moving whirlpools. These places are called gyres. The garbage collects in the middle of these gyres.

What is keeping the garbage there- The gyre

What effects does this garbage have on the enviornment

dyamondwt — 2015-04-21 18:41:25 UTC

It effects the middle of the ocean.

The animals like birds and fish eat the plastic which they can not digest and it causes them to die.

Then the sunlight breaks the plastic down into smaller pieces over time. But, there is still nothing that can feed on these smaller pieces, so they remain floating in the ocean.

When plastic is broken into tiny pieces it can sink to the bottom of the ocean. This too has its problems, because it can smother the smaller creatures that live on the seabed.

What is being done to clean this mess up

dyamondwt — 2015-04-21 18:50:04 UTC

Scientists say there's not been a way established to clean it up yet, but they are monitoring it and will try to curb its growth.

Who knows about the Atlantic Garbage Patch?

dyamondwt — 2015-04-21 18:53:51 UTC

Scientist and people who teach or take science.

dyamondwt — 2015-04-21 18:57:32 UTC