Located between the waters of California and Hawaii, Pacific Raffles Island is a huge 'plastic swirl' that is equivalent to two U.S. Texas landfills that form the dump on the eastern Pacific Ocean. After the sea animals swallow a large amount of toxins, they eventually enter the human food chain via the sea creatures and the birds' bodies.
On September 10, 2009, according to the National Geographic Web site, SEAPLEX (the English abbreviation for Scripps Survival Plastic Accumulation Expedition) recently became the first expedition to 'plastic swirls' in the area between California and Hawaii This giant 'plastic whirlpool' is equivalent to two U.S. Texas, where they found a lot of plastic garbage on a 1,700-mile voyage that formed the dump on the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Oceanographer Charles Moore discovered the trash island when he sailed across the North Pacific Gyre in 1997. Navigators typically avoid passing through the oceanic circulation system because this persistence Variable high-pressure systems, known as equatorial wind-belts, have no winds and currents that can give sailors any benefit.
Moore discovered that a large number of plastic closures, plastic bags, high-frequency insulation, and tiny plastic chips floated on the surface of the sea, and the sun and waves slowly decomposed them into small pieces that were suspended beneath the sea in an attempt to give The plains and satellites were not visible at all in this plastic continent, but Moore found that these tracts were six times more plankton when trawled later.
Scientists have now identified the cause of this super-dump, the abandoned, empty plastic bags that have entered the sea through sewers, and the moving ocean currents bring them together and eventually form what is now seen Of the littoral island.As a result of the current circular movement, originally scattered small pieces of garbage will be gradually brought together, while marine experts said the floating in the sea, a huge junk island floating between California and Hawaii Of the vast waters, consisting mainly of domestic waste, 80% of which are discarded plastic products, mainly from land and weighing 3.5 million tons.
Ecologists warn that these floating debris from the ocean will pose a serious threat to aquatic life, explaining that birds mistakenly use plastic as a food, causing the consumable system to become obstructed, so that plastic-eating birds Classes will eventually die of starvation, while the natural degradation of plastics lasts for decades, with some local governments trying to ban the production and use of plastic bags in stores and advising consumers to use reusable net bags.