Great Pacific Garbage Patch

How much of garbage come form ship?

20% come form ship. A cruise ship creates about 8 tons of garbage a week.

How much of earth made plastic every year?

200 billion pound. 10% of that end up in the ocean.

How much square mile of the ocean is floating plastic?

46,000 pieces

How much it come from land?

80% come from land.

How did it happen?

By the current of the north Pacific Gyre.

What are the groups who are helping it?

Environmental cleanup Foundation, Project Kaisei, Seaplex, Algaltia Marine Research foundation.

What is Gyre?

Is a large system of rotating ocean currents.

What is the great pacific Garbage Patch?

It is a wide range of trash, plastic chemical, sludge and debris floating together in a large mass in Pacific Ocean.

What are the effects of this?

It is killing marine wildlife. They mostly mistake the plastic for plankton. Killing their immune system. Human eats fish and it give them many problems.

What does it look like?

It isn't easily visible. The size is unknown but it is estimated at 270,00 to 16,000,000 square miles. The size of Texas. It depth is 100 feet.

What is the great pacific also called?

Pacific Trash Vortex

What can we do for it?

To stop plastic and recycle and use paper bags. Stop Littering.