Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Kaila Moore

What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

kailamoore36 — 2015-04-20 18:41:29 UTC

It is a collection of marine debris in the north Pacific Ocean. The great pacific patch is also known as the pacific trash vortex. It is twice the size of Texas. The trash includes plastic bags, bottles and debris. It is located between Hawaii and California, in an atmospheric area known as the North Pacific Subtropical High.

How did this giant area of trash form?

kailamoore36 — 2015-04-20 18:56:54 UTC

Where did the garbage come from? About 80% of trash comes from activity's done on land.

How did it come to be in the middle of the pacific? Every year about 100 million containers are shipped over the worlds oceans. one of the shipping routes is between Asia and north America.

What is keeping the garbage there? When ships are caught in storms, they often lose cargo to the oceans

What Effects does this garbage have on the environment?

kailamoore36 — 2015-04-22 18:59:16 UTC

What area's of ocean or land are impacted? Long Beach California, Hawaii, San Francisco

What is being done to clean up this mess?

kailamoore36 — 2015-04-22 19:12:35 UTC

Are there any clean-up efforts? Plastic will photodegrade it's self, a process by which it ultimately ends up breaking into countless tiny bits of the same substance. Set-up by Ocean Voyages Institute of California in 2008, a California 501(c)3 non-profit organization, Project Kaisei is the ‘Ocean Clean-up initiative’ of the Institute, focused on increasing awareness of the scale of marine debris

Who is helping solve this problem? Charles Moore, who discovered the patch in 1997, continues to raise awareness through his own environmental organization, the Algalita Marine Research Foundation.

What are some solutions to this problem? One solution is to get biodegradable plastic. The people are self's could stop throwing the plastic bottles in the sewer and gutters.

Who knows about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

kailamoore36 — 2015-04-22 19:37:36 UTC

Did you know about this? No I did not.

Why do you think such a big problem is relatively unheard of? I personally think we have bigger problems to worry about. Also no one brings it to are attention.

How can peoplehelp spread information about this problem and/or helpdevelop solutions? They can start having commercials about it, or have groups made up specifically to tell people about what It is.

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kailamoore36 — 2015-04-24 17:49:25 UTC

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