Trash Vortex Size of Texas
The trash vortex is an area the size
of Texas in the North Pacific in which an estimated six kilos of plastic for
every kilo of natural plankton, along with other slow degrading garbage, swirls
slowly around like a clock, choked with dead fish, marine mammals, and birds
who get snared. About 20 percent of this is from ships and platforms, the rest
from land.
Take a walk along any beach anywhere
in the world and washed ashore will be many polythene plastic bags, bottles and
containers, plastic drums, expanded polystyrene packing, polyurethane foam
pieces, pieces of polypropylene fishing net and discarded lengths of rope. At
sea and on shore under the influence of sunlight, wave action and mechanical
abrasion they simply break down slowly into ever smaller particles.
A single one litre bottle could break
down into enough small fragments to put one on every mile of beach in the
entire world. These smaller particles are joined by the small pellets of
plastic which are the form in which many new plastics are marketed and which
can be lost at sea by the drum load or even a whole container load.
View Pacific Trash Vortex in a larger map
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A tree has the potential to sequester about a ton of carbon over 50 years. What's more, It generates enough oxygen for two human beings for their lifetimes.Any which way you look at it. You are cleansing your air and making up for the carbon that you unintentionally emit.
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