Trash Island in the Pacific Ocean, Covering an area of ​​Texas!!

You know, every time America or China throw garbage into the sea of ​​such objects will be assembled in the same place ..? Yes, the place is called the North Pacific Gyre. The longer the junk pile of garbage piling up until now it has become the island by the state of Texas.Plastic does not decompose, but it can suck up small, even as small as plankton. Well, the fish whose name was not being super smart, so if a similar look plankton, directly immediately eaten. So a food chain: plastic eating fish, we eat fish, and so on.The researchers never take the sea water from the island's garbage. The result contains six times more plastic than plankton number. Oops department also ya ..?. Oh yeah, do not try to stand on the island because you will instantly collapsing into the sea. Then you place already full of garbage collapsing again.



North Pacific Gyre is an area in the Pacific
 ocean. Gyre itself means circle or round flows. In the area which is right between the equator and 50o north latitude, there are an island of human handiwork. It's just that his island is Island of Rubbish!!!

 
These eddies have a very large area, almost 2 times the Americas. Here the wind blows very slowly and the water pressure is too high. The sailors, especially sailing ship always avoid this area because of too little wind that blows. Due to the natural conditions of the many objects that are stuck here because this area is the center of the flow velocity of water and wind. Area makes up dead.Later discovered in 1997, Charles Moore (a ship captain from California) across this area to find a shortcut home after the race screen in Asia. On the way home he found the collection of garbage stuck here to be an island, almost 2x widely Texas ..!Estimated to contain about 100 million tonnes of waste (and counting). Most came from every country in the North Pacific, from North America to East Asia and Australia. This area, which became known as the Great Pacific Garbage, North Pacific Gyre, Trash Vortex, and Plastic Graveyard.



The garbage island has caused a lot of problems. The most important of course the plastic problem. This giant plastic island will never diminish. Because (of course) the plastic can not be decomposed organic matter. Ultraviolet rays only decipher them into small parts and even to the size of plankton. And only 4% is lost if destroyed, the rest is still there, just might change shape. Whereas the United States alone produces about 60 billion pounds of plastic waste per year.What's worse if the plastic particles are eaten by animals, especially fish that we consume. Poison definitely come to our dinner table.