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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch also know as:

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch also know as: . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnUjTHB1lvM (2 min. 43 sec). Plastic. For over 40 years, plastic has been washing off the world’s beaches, out of city storm drains and is now floating out in the oceans.

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch also know as:

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  1. The Great Pacific Garbage Patchalso know as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnUjTHB1lvM (2 min. 43 sec) Plastic

  2. For over 40 years, plastic has been washing off the world’s beaches, out of city storm drains and is now floating out in the oceans. In the Pacific Ocean there are two giant swirling areas – twice the size of the U.S, that are 100 feet deep in plastic.

  3. A yacht racer named Charles Moore discovered the huge garbage area that has 7 million tons of floating plastic in 1997. • Moore reported, "There were shampoo caps and soap bottles and plastic bags and fishing floats as far as I could see. Here I was in the middle of the ocean, and there was nowhere I could go to avoid the plastic."

  4. Many plastic bottles, plastic shopping bags, plastic toys, food containers; fish nets, yogurt containers, etc. that are litter, get washed out to sea in storm drains, and off beaches. The Los Angeles River after a storm.

  5. Sea turtles and birds, • think the plastic is food. Albatross eat and feed plastic to their babies Sea turtles think plastic bags are jellyfish An estimated 1,000,000 seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals and turtles starve to death each year after plastic blocks their digestive tracks.

  6. Over time, plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. • For every one pound of plankton, there is six pounds of plastic in the Pacific Garbage Patch. Plastics never biodegrade, the tiny particles are forever. Plastic acts like a sponge and absorbs toxic chemicals. When we eat fish, we may eat the toxic chemicals they have eaten.

  7. Plastic pellets are used to make plastic items. Millions of pellets are spilled into the waterways and oceans. These little pellets are a BIG problem. In some of the beaches in England, 25% of the sand is plastic particles by weight!

  8. More than 60 million plastic water bottles are thrown away each day. That is over 22 billion every year, just in the United States! Only 12% are recycled

  9. Although people are recycling more, the use of plastic is increasing faster.

  10. The U.S government estimates that between 500 billion and a trillion plastic shopping bags are used each year worldwide. Millions of bags end up in the rivers, lakes and oceans of the world.

  11. What can we do? It is almost impossible to do anything about the plastic that is already in the ocean. Imagine filtering all the water in Texas and it is 50 to 300 feet deep in plastic! We must try to stop new plastic from entering the oceans. • 1) Get cities to put barriers on storm drains that enter into rivers and oceans • 2) Pick-up trash off the beaches • 3) Get manufacturers to prevent and clean-up all plastic pellet spills. • 4) Reduce buying plastic products and plastic shopping bags • 5) Reuse and recycle plastic • 6) Educate your parents and friends

  12. Do This Not This Reusable water bottles Stop buying plastic “junk” you don’t really need Grow your own

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