the great pacific garbage patch is located at northern pacific ocean.
the great pacific garbage patch is located at northern pacific ocean.
where is the the great pacific garbage patch located?
northern pacific ocean
ocean gyres are known to collect pollutants. the great pacific garbage patch in the central north pacific ocean is a gyre of marine debris particles and floating trash halfway between hawaii and california, and extends over an indeterminate area of widely varying range depending on the degree of plastic concentration used to define it. an estimated 80,000 metric tons of plastic inhabit the patch, totaling 1.8 trillion pieces. 92% of the mass in the patch comes from objects larger than 0.5 centimeters.
ocean gyre
the south pacific garbage patch is an area of elevated levels of marine debris and plastic particle pollution, most of which is concentrated within the ocean's pelagic zone. it is located within the south pacific gyre, which itself spans from waters east of australia to the south american continent, as far north as the equator, and south until reaching the antarctic circumpolar current. the degradation of plastics in the ocean also leads to a rise in the level of toxins in the area. this garbage patch is the most recently discovered having only been confirmed in mid-2017. the south pacific garbage patch has been compared in nature to the great pacific garbage patch's state in 2007, making the former ten years younger. the garbage patch is impossible to detect using satellites, or other visual means as most particles are smaller than a grain of rice.
south pacific garbage patch