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Great Pacific Garbage Patch What is it and why is it occuring? -600,000 Square Miles (twice the size of Texas) -1.8 Trillion pieces of microplastic (not biodegradable) -88,000 Tons -Comprised of the Western Garbage Patch (near Japan) and

Great Pacific Garbage Patch
What is it and why is it occuring? -600,000 Square Miles (twice the size of Texas) -1.8 Trillion pieces of microplastic (not biodegradable) -88,000 Tons -Comprised of the Western Garbage Patch (near Japan) and Eastern Garbage Patch (between Hawaii and California) -Ocean Currents: North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone
The System https://bit.ly/2Q6NJfi
Boundaries -Origins of the garbage ● Fishing gear ● Landfills (North America & Asia) ● Dropped shipping containers ● 1.15-2.41 million metric tonnes of plastic enter the ocean each year -Direct effects of the garbage ● Entanglement of avian and marine life ● Marine food webs ● Bioaccumulation ● Coral reefs ● Human food chain
Limitations and what now? -Economic benefit and cost (funding) -Social change -Educate the public -Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -Government interference, subsidies, incentives? (International waters) -The Ocean Cleanup
Works Cited Ferris, David. “Message in a Bottle.” John Muir and the Calypso Borealis - John Muir , vault.sierraclub.org/sierra/200905/message2.aspx. Magraw- Mickelson, Jacob. “Transparency: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” GOOD , 19 Nov. 2014, www.good.is/infographics/transparency-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch. Rice, Doyle. “World's Largest Collection of Ocean Garbage Is Twice the Size of Texas.” USA Today , Gannett Satellite Information Network, 28 Mar. 2018, www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2018/03/22/great-pacific-garbage-patch-grows/446405002/. https://feo-english.weebly.com/plastic-island.html National Geographic Society. “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” National Geographic Society , 9 Oct. 2012, www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage- patch/. Nace, Trevor. “The World's Largest Ocean Cleanup Has Officially Begun.” Forbes , Forbes Magazine, 10 Sept. 2018, www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/09/10/the- worlds-largest-ocean-cleanup-has-officially-begun/#446edd12738c https://www.theoceancleanup.com/ Ocean Cleanup. “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. ” The Ocean Cleanup , www.theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/.

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