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Can a car be driven on the Great Garbage Patch?
No. The items in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch are not bonded together.
How long is the great garbage patch?
1,000 years
How long is the great pacific garbage patch?
1,000 years
When did the great pacific garbage patch start?
1997 the effect of water pollution on ecosystem
How much does pollution raise sea levels through displacement See the 87000 tons in the Pacific garbage patch for example www.nytimes.com20180322climategreat-pacific-garbage-patch.HTML?
87,000 tons, according to the NY Times: See article: "The 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Is Ballooning, 87,000 Tons of Plastic and Counting"
What are the benefits of a garbage patch?
None whatsoever!
Approximately where is it Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
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.
How did the pacific garbage patch start?
Indiscriminate dumping.
How does the the Indian Ocean affect the population around it?
humans pollute the indian ocean and use it like a garbage patch because they are to lazy to throw away their own trash.
How big is the pacific garbage patch?
Twice the size of Texas.
How does currents create a garbage patch in the ocean?
eddy currents
How can we stop goblal warming and the great pasific garbage patch?
Well we can stop it by recyling and ridiing bikes to school work. If we all do our part we can help.
