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We are an environmental science course at St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, NJ, taught by Mrs. T. We'll be blogging about environmental issues all term, so please stay tuned!

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

 The great pacific garbage path is a garbage patch located in the central north pacific ocean.


It covers a lot of area with trashes. It almost a twise the size of texas.


This garbage patch is divided into two area. The eastern Garbage patch between hawaii and california. And  the western garbage patch japan to hawaii islands




This garbage patch is consist of big and small trashes. But there are some tiny microplastic and this microplastic is hard to removed from the ocean because there is no Technology or equipment for this large amount of tiny trashes.


And also it is difficult to deal with this beacuse this area is too big so it coast a lot and need lots of work.


Because plastic takes a lot of time to get rid of. The level of pollution is  rises highly every year.


In addition, this garbage patch  damage a marine life and a human life.

For example the turtle see the platic bag as a jelly fish and the turtle consume plastic bag. 


A fish eats nicroplastic and other trashes and that fish is coming to our meal. And we are eating the plastic


Experts say that new technology is needed to dispose of this large amount of garbage.


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