A Huge Trash Pile Floating in the Water

A large floating patch of garbage located between Hawaii and California is rapidly growing. It is now known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Researchers have used single, fine-meshed nets, to try and collect the garbage in attempt to lower the amount of garbage floating about. This method isn't bringing around much change however, because their resources at the moment. Many objects don't get caught in the net due to size and the small surface area the net covers.
Laurent Lebreton, lead author of the study, explains that "Although it is not possible to draw any firm conclusions on the persistency of plastic pollution in the GPGP yet, this plastic accumulation rate inside the GPGP, which was greater than in the surrounding waters, indicates that the inflow of plastic into the patch continues to exceed the outflow." 
This is a problem because many fish are eating plastic or getting caught in the trash. Its also a problem because it's a huge mass of trash floating in the waters. The research done by this team also underlines the urgency of dealing with the plastic pollution problem. 

 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180322123755.htm

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  1. AnonymousApril 6, 2018 at 9:18 AM

    I hate to hear that the ocean is has so much trash it creates its own islands. I think what we should start implementing is dumping trash in space. Space travel is becoming cheaper due to private companies like Space X and Blue Origin. If we could make a super cheap reusable rocket that just launches trash into space, it wouldn't have to be put in landfills of burned.

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  2. AnonymousApril 12, 2018 at 5:24 AM

    This is definitely a problem that our society is not paying enough attention to. It is definitely a huge issue that has a great impact on the environment. This directly harms hundreds of species of ocean life. Hopefully a solution is found for this problem.

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