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It can't really. It is too big and would cost too much. Even if work stared to be done to remove the debris from the collection, there are countless tiny bits of plastic that the sun has broken down (but not completely). It would take MANY generations to get it cleaned. Then it would take a continuous effort on everyone to keep it clean beacause of the currents that pull the debris from the shores and rivers to that location. Everyday, more trash is being collected there and it doesn't leave unless an animal takes it away. Then, there is the problem that what would you do with what is being taken out. I'm not saying that it should be left there but really, who is going to put that much time, money, and effort into it. Most people in the U.S. don't even know about it.
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Is all the plastic from the great pacific garbage patch picked up?
Idk im asking u guys to answer all my questions so I WONT ANSWER YOURS
Can a person walk on the pacific garbage patch?
No you can't. For the most part the Pacific Garbage Patch (PGP) is sub surface, broken down pieces of plastics and other garbage. While there are clumps of larger debris clinging together, these are too sporadic and unstable to be used for walking on. The worst problem caused by the PGP is tiny fragments of plastic, which now outnumber plankton in the area by six fold. This means that the food which is the basis for all marine life is terribly tainted and is poisoning the food chain from the base, up.
Where does the waste from a garbage disposal go?
Depends on the country but almost always it ends up in the ocean, where it will decompose naturally. However, any other products in our sewage, like plastics, also end up in the ocean, but can greatly damage the ecosystems there (Just search up "the great Pacific garbage patch")
When you define clean up destructor how does it affect garbage collector?
If you define clean up in destructor garbage collector will take more time to clean up the objects and more and more objects are created in Gen 2..
Are clean up jobs limited to mopping floors or garbage pickup?
Not necessarily. Some janitorial jobs in cleaning up involve minor maintenance. Clean up jobs themselves can be very varied to; ranging from typical garbage disposal to crime scene clean up.
How can you make the environment clean?
pick up garbage and dog dodo
How does the great Pacific garbage patch affect sea birds and animals?
Plastic bottles and bags dumped from ships and from storm water drains and rivers float in the oceans and the wind and currents bring them all to this great revolving Pacific Gyre. Plastic ropes and discarded fishing nets are part of it too. Scientists estimate that there is around three million tons of plastic debris there.The sun and the oceans have broken the plastic down. As the plastic degrades it releases many toxins which get into the food chain. It also breaks up into tiny pieces which are attractive to sea birds and marine creatures. This plastic junk builds up in their stomachs till they die. Some of the particles are microscopic and filter feeders like whales are swallowing them."Ghost fishing" from thrown away nets are still trapping fish and marine animals. An estimated 100,000 turtles and other animals die each year, and more than one million birds.Studies have found that even barnacles are eating tiny shreds of plastic.A:Discovered in 1997, by an American oceanographer named Charles Moore, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is composed largely of a combination of different types of plastic, and other articles of trash floating out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There are actually several garbage patches, but the in the pacific ocean there are two. There is an Eastern and Western Pacific Garbage Patch. They are also connected by an ocean current and pick up trash from all over the world. The Western Garbage Patch is located between Japan and Hawaii. It is somewhat smaller than the one in question here, which is the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, located between California and Hawaii. The Eastern Garbage Patch has been described as being very large, and compared to the size of the state of Texas; which is one of largest states, if not the largest state, located in the United States. Large circular ocean currents called a gyre hold the trash accumulations.
The great pacific patch affects who?
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch indirectly affects everyone, since plastic and plastic particles are consumed by sea life and work their way up the food chain, eventually reaching humans. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch kills a huge amount of sea creatures. Sea Turtles think that plastic bags are jellyfish, which are their main food source, and eat them, which eventually kills them from plastic poisoning and starvation. Fish and sea mammals, including seals, are tangled up in plastic nets that will never decompose. There was a sea turtle which grew up with a plastic band around its shell, so that when it was found its shell was strangled into an hourglass shape. http://bigpictureblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/windowslivewritercharlesmooresexploration-bf39sea-turtle-deformed-12.jpg
Give three exampels of how you can serve and help clean up youre school or community?
You can recycle, clean up garbage and help old people.
How do you clean up battery acid off of linens?
Soak it in bleach then put in garbage disposal
When the great pacific garbage patch happened?
Plastics piling up over time in the ocean. They are trapped in the vortex of the ocean's gyre and cannot escape. And its just grows. Now its twice the size of texas and is raising the oceans acid levels by 13%
What is proverb of plastic pollution?
There's no solution to this pollution! Plastic is everywhere. Is there anywhere you can go in any large city or near any small town and not see plastic bags littering the environment? And consider the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's a marine gyre larger than the state of Texas, and it has high concentrations of oceanic litter that is mostly floating plastic. How are we supposed to clean that up? A link is provided below.
