Indiscriminate dumping.
No. The items in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch are not bonded together.
1997 the effect of water pollution on ecosystem
No. There has been a field of garbage floating in the Pacific for years as the result of accumulated litter.
Twice the size of Texas.
1,000 years
87,000 tons, according to the NY Times: See article: "The 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting"
nowhere
It is located in an area call the North Pacific Gyre, which is a patch of the North Pacific Ocean that covers thousands of square miles roughly between the United States and Japan and reaching toward Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. It's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch because the prevailing ocean currents tend to swirl around this patch of ocean, causing all manner of floating debris to be concentrated in the gyre.
Great pacific garbage patch.... It's where thousands of tons worth of waste has gathered in a big floating mess
This implies that the food web structure and primary productivity are uncoupled in the oligotrophic gyres.The North Pacific Gyre collected enough debris to create the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Eutrophication, the pacific garbage patch, over population of invasive species in some areas, global warming effects, etc.
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