How big is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 2018?

Geography

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Agata [3.3K]3 years ago

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Answer:

1.6 million square km

Explanation:

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an excellent proof of how much the humans are damaging the environment, and how little they actually care about it. The biggest ocean on the planet, the Pacific Ocean, has a garbage patch that is estimated to be 1.6 million km in size. To put into a perspective, that's approximately twice the size of Texas. That data is from 2015 though, so the chances are that in the present the garbage patch is even bigger. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes to literary be a slow moving island of garbage. It is around 3.5 meters deep, and it contains around 7 million tons of garbage, the majority of which is plastic. This garbage patch actually has so much plastic that it outnumbers the plankton in the Pacific Ocean. The fish that lives around it, as well as the other marine life, are badly affected, and around 8% of them actually have plastic in them because of it.

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