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Not everyone knows that in the North Pacific A comparatively long time ago, a huge accumulation of garbage formed. Specialists call it the Great Pacific Trash Spot, Pacific Garbage Disposal, Eastern Garbage Continent and other “talking” names.
The spot is actually already taking on the size of a continent, and scientists sound the alarm. Researchers have determined that over the past year the garbage collection has become several times larger, and today its area is 3 times the territory of France! In this case, the accumulation of plastic bottles and plastic bags continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
The appearance of the Great Pacific garbage spot predicted back in 1988. American scientists have followed the course of the Pacific ocean and plastic drifting over them, determining that most This waste will end up in one place. These forecasts confirmed a few years later, when the water was A huge rubbish formation was discovered from an airplane. Journalists called it an exceptional example of world pollution the ocean.
Today it became known that the area of pollution is already over 1.6 million kilometers, and the weight of the waste exceeds 100 million tons. Plastic is not biodegradable and under exposure to the sun only breaks up into microscopic particles. Many marine animals eat them, taking them for plankton. At least 267 species suffer from eating this garbage. Moreover, microscopic plastic is now everywhere in including seafood that people eat. A circle closed – we poison plastic waste not only the world the ocean, but also myself …
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