The Great Pacific Garbage Patch spans 620,000 square miles - an area twice the size of Texas - with the majority of trash coming from China, Japan, Korea and the US. The aquatic trash-heap was first detected 1,200 miles west of California in 1997, and has since sprawled across the ocean - threatening marine life while releasing toxic microplastics into the atmosphere.
Recently, an international group of scientists discovered a water-borne fungus chomping through the trash, which has been detailed in a new study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The fungus was discovered among the whispery layers of other microbes which live in the suspended plastic pile, and it's only the fourth known marine fungus capable of consuming plastic waste. Click on the graphic to read how they're working to get rid of this giant mess...
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Where are the tree-huggers going to put the trash?
ReplyDeleteJust wondering: how much of this was 'recycled' stuff sent by the US to be dumped into the ocean in Asia?
ReplyDeleteIf this mass of trash is so big, why don't they show me a satellite photo of it?
ReplyDeleteLMAO, the article says that the collected trash is used by Kia to make their EVs. Cars literally made from garbage.
ReplyDeleteGee, the majority of the area is 1 kg/sq.km of trash. (Calculator time) that's 5.7 pounds per square mile. Do you think you could even see that? Maybe if you came across a large piece of something.
ReplyDeleteThey must have taken the picture in the densest part of the whole patch. Propaganda at its finest. Chances are it's stuff that was sent to Asia to be recycled, like Henk Vandenbergh said.
I wouldnt be surprised if the photo was of something other than the mid ocean garbage.
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