There's an island of garbage floating in the Pacific. It's poisoniIssuing time:2018-12-13 09:25 Plastic Bag In the middle of our oceans are five floating islands of trash called offshore plastic accumulation zones. The largest of these zones is number 1, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and it is located between Hawaii and California. The garbage patch is made up of plastic debris that is not biodegradable and will, without interference, continue to grow from plastics fed into the ocean from rivers and streams across Asia, Australia, and Western North America. Just Off Our ShoresRight now, it is estimated that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is approximately 100 million square miles in size, or, roughly twice the size of Texas.
Ocean Cleanup, the organization that has been studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and its impact on the environment, launched a tug boat out of San Francisco in September, loaded with specialty collection equipment designed to begin cleaning the plastic from the ocean. It’s Not Just The PacificWhile not as large, the four other garbage patches in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, South Pacific and South Atlantic are also masses of plastic waste accumulated through runoff of rivers and streams. While Ocean Cleanup works on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and learns how to clean the ocean there, it can take what it has learned to apply it to other areas. But all the cleanup in the world won’t help if we don’t stem the tide of plastic that ends up in our landfills, rivers, lakes, and streams. Here in the US, more and more states are banning plastic bags, straws, and other plastic storage containers in favor of reusable and recyclable alternatives like paper grocery bags, paper shipping box, and paper recycled envelopes. Even when discarded, paper bags biodegrade quickly and do not present the toxic dangers of plastics should they be ingested by wildlife. Let concern about the earth and use the recycle materials. Any questions, contact Shenzhen Joybean Industrial Co.,Ltd |