Why should we care about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and plastic pollution generally, is killing marine life. 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals are affected every year, as well as many other species around the world because of the food chain. Eventually plastic will heavily affect our food supply making it difficult for food surplus to get out into the public eventually.
The GPGP is the largest island of trash is located near Japan, it contains 1.15 to 2.41 million tonnes of plastic, 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, 652+ surface nets and the GPGP is three times the size of France.
Hello Vin,
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading your post. The statement as well as the other text that you have given is concerning. The rapid decline of the health of our oceans is a serious problem indeed. However, with that said, with your 'newspaper' article I have--in terms of length--expected more. Nonetheless, your post was informational and I have liked it.