A photo from open sources
The first such landfill has been known for over thirty years. She located in the North Pacific and is a spot the size of Alaska. Do something to eliminate this trash have failed so far.
And in the South Pacific found a second dump plastic trash. We found him, one might say, by chance. First the researchers came across an island in this part of the ocean, on which has accumulated several tens of tons of plastic. It caused suspicion, after which scientists began to search for the main landfill and soon found her. It is a stain the size of a million square kilometers, that is, more than any European country.
According to preliminary estimates, more than one and a half swim here million tons of plastic waste, and in most cases this particles per millimeter or less. Microplastic is not so harmless, as it may seem, rather the opposite: it is he who easily kills everything living in the ocean, ranging from large animals to microscopic organisms.
Microplastic today, as the researchers determined, is literally stuffed with all commercial fish and marine animals, so eat seafood is becoming an increasingly dangerous occupation, although still half a century ago it was the most organic food.
The second plastic dump seems to have formed in total a few years ago, since she wasn’t here in 2011, say oceanologists.
Environmentalists claim that similar dumps of plastic garbage affect not only the life of marine life, but also our climate the planet as a whole. And all these current climate disasters, quite possibly caused not by global warming (it is rather total consequence), and our thoughtless attitude to nature. First we cut down forests, dirtied rivers and lakes, poisoned the air that breathing, now embarked on the harassment of the oceans. But he told us this I suppose, she’ll simply not allow it to be done …
Plastic
