I’ve been wanting to make a post about this for sometime and it took me a while to figure out how to add links to this blog thing but here it is. This blog is about the biggest garbage patch in the world otherwise known as the Great Garbage Patch located in the Pacific Ocean. It arises from a collection event that is part of the Pacific Ocean surface circulation. There is a really cool animated slide of the patch and you can play with the amount of thrash added by clicking here.
The problem partly stems from our use of plastics, which is not biodegradable. So waste swirls around in the seas collecting at Ocean Gyres. Apparently the plastic to sea life ratio in these areas are 6:1 so needless to say animals are dying because of it. The Great Garbage Patch is roughly the size of Texas and contains about 3.5 million tons of thrash. What bugs me is that there really isn’t an international effort to clean up the mess so the problem continues to get worse. There is a website dedicated to this problem here.
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1 comment:
Great post, Ben! The interactive site is very neat...I will be back to check it out more thoroughly...I also need to read your salinity post more carefully. You've figured out the links: great! The last one doesn't lead me anywhere, though...
Great job with your blog!
Cathy
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