The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Welcome! This website is included in my AP Environmental science final. I have been very passionate about the ocean and aquatic life for many years. I hope this website will help you learn and inspire you to help make a change.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt Disney
Contributing factors
The amount of debris that makes up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is unknown. Land-based activities from North America and Asia make up about 54% of the Garbage patch. Remaining 20% is made from boaters, offshore oil rigs and large cargo ships. They just dump debris or lose it directly into the water. About 705,000 fishing nets makes up that majority. Other items include LEGOs and computer monitors dropped from shipping containers.
Marine life
It's very obvious that mass amounts of garbage is terrible of living organisms. Large and small creatures are ingesting plastic instead of food, starving them. In addition the plastic acts as a poison while in the gut, causing severe digestive problems that end in death.
Legislation
1970 environmental laws have yet to complete their jobs. Clean Water act hasn't produced clean water yet, Earth Law has yet to keep all Earth's organisms healthy by protecting against plastic pollution in the waterways. It has been claimed and proven that until humanity governs ourselves there won't be a big change.
Environment
Unfortunately we know change requires resolve, money and time. As of now there is clearly damage and unnatural debris in the environment, immense marine fatalities and harm to many industries and the economy.
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