The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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Is this the ocean you want?
The choice is up to you!
Take a good look at this photo. Everything ends up in our oceans. Would you swim in this?
Photo by Stian Olsen
Located between California & Hawaii
THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH
The distance from California to Honolulu, Hawaii is 2,551 miles. The patch is thought to be the size of 2 Texas states. Texas is the second largest state in our nation.
What is an ocean Gyre & why should we be concerned?
Image a yard stick. Now put 30 end-to-end and that is the thickness we are talking about.
Photo by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Who discovered the patch?
Race boat captain, Charles Moore
On a trip back home to Long Beach from racing his boat in Hawaii, Charles Moore wanted to take the short cut home. He ended up sailing back through the garbage patch. It took him and his men 7 straight days to get through the floating trash.
What did he see?
Photo by silverlinedwinnebago
Ships caught in storms lose cargo to the oceans
In 1992 tens of thousands of bathtub toys were lost in the Pacific
This man is holding the bathtub toys that were lost and then found on the seashores of the Pacific Northwest.
Where is all garbage coming from?
All over the world, caused by 80% land run off and 20 % ship dumping
This is how some people live in parts of the world. They have no dumps for their trash so this could end up in the ocean. Aren't you glad we have weekly trash & recycling pick up?
Photo by Marco Bellucci
What do we do with it all?
Do you know where all your household and school and restaurant waste goes?
We in Utah live inland and we have a lot of land. Are trash in Salt Lake County ends up at the South Jordan Landfill.
How many of you recycle?
We in Utah live inland and we have a lot of land. Are trash in Salt Lake County ends up at the South Jordan Landfill.
How many of you recycle?
Photo by dkilim
How is it effecting the sea life?
This is reality. This is what is happening to our sea life.
Are the sea life getting sick?
This turtle thought she was going to eat a jellyfish.
How many more turtles are suffering from eating plastic. Do you really need all those plastic bags you get at the store?
Is garbage killing the sea life?
This dead albatross is filled with plastic he ate. He suffered a slow death.
Big birds are eating to feed their babies. When they feed the babies they don't know they are giving them plastic.
What are people doing about it?
This group, Project Kaisei, is planning beach cleanups. Check out their web site.
Charles Moore is doing his part.
His environmental organization, Algalita Marine Research Foundation, continues to research and raise awareness.
This seal is trying to be released from all the netting it is tangled in.
The Pacific Trash Vortex, another idea.
(The Great Pacific Garbage Patch)
This is a picture of one possible clean-up idea.
Photo by cesarharada.com
What can you do as an individual?
Please see the website and videos for further information
Please visit this website for more information We are not going to watch a video.
