Huge Garbage Patch in the Pacific

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Ever wonder where does some of our garbage go? Well one place called the Great Pacific garbage patch is where a whole lot of garbage is located. There are about 1.8 TRILLION pieces of plastic that weighs about 80,000 metric tons that are afloat in the Great pacific garbage patch. That is a huge amount of garbage and its even getting worse. In an attempt to fix this problem they use fine-meshed nets but its not that effective. What I would do is to have a big event and have a bunch of people help and get rid of the garbage.

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  1. AnonymousMarch 26, 2018 at 10:12 AM

    Well this is actually disgusting! I like the idea of hosting a big event and getting a bunch of people together to clean some of the garbage up!

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  2. AnonymousApril 5, 2018 at 6:26 AM

    This is terrible for the quality of the ocean and for the ecosystem that is located in the ocean.

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