Great Pacific Garbage Patch

 

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

What is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch you ask? The Great Pacific Garbage Patch or GPGP is a huge rubbish and litter gyre in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. This rubbish gyre is actually the biggest in the world out of the five main rubbish patches. This rubbish patch may never get reversed because it's too big and we can't burn the rubbish because that would cause other issues like air pollution which would be just as bad or even worse. We would never get on top of this issue especially since we still use so much plastic everyday. Imagine if you went to the supermarket and there was no plastic then everything would be different because the packaging of your food items would need to change and that's only a little bit of plastic we use. The Great Pacific Garbage patch is causing the ocean serious harm. The garbage patch currently has heaps of the rubbish we throw out. Sadly the rate that we are going the ocean won't be able to handle it and our fish and sea animals will all die. When we throw out our rubbish, heaps of it will get into the sea and this is kill one hundred thousand sea life each year which is a lot. People need to stop littering and we need to try to get on top of this plastic issue as it may end up causing humans serious harm in no time at all.  What causes these issues? These issues are caused by the use of plastic that people use. This could be from things like Nurdles which humans use to make plastic. These plastics are thrown out and are accumulated in things like the dump. This rubbish is then thrown out and dumped either in a big hole or thrown into the sea.  There are many causes and effects of rubbish in the ocean especially in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is important because this rubbish is killing sea life and the animals in the sea. This is also ruining our planet since the sea soon won't be able to handle our pollution. Humans use so much plastic and that produces more rubbish which gets dug into the land or dumped into the ocean. We now have heaps of people that litter and rubbish is now getting into waterways and is getting taken into the sea from these waterways. What are the effects? The effects are that the rubbish in the ocean is getting caught into gyres like the north pacific gyre. This is causing the ocean to be full of pollutants and its slowing running the ocean and our world. Sea life is dieing from this as they eat the plastics and struggle to survive as they aren't hungry so they don't get enough nutrients. The ocean is now filled with the most rubbish ever and the use of plastic is still very high as our supermarkets, and shops still use heaps of plastic as packaging is mainly plastic as they have a hard time finding an alternative as plastic is so easy for them to get hold of and make. In conclusion the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a very bad place for the environment and things like sea life and maybe in the future even humans. This is a huge problem so we need to use less plastic then slowly get rid of plastic because it could be the end of our planet.

1. Plankton: Plankton is a large collection of organism found in both the water and air

2. Plastic Particles: Fragments of plastic that are smaller than five millimeters these are turned into microplastics

3. Plastic Soup: Pollution in the ocean caused by plastic

4. Fragment: Fragments are pieces of plastic that have broken down into small pieces of plastic 

5. Pacific ocean: This is the largest and deepest ocean it extended from the arctic ocean and the southern ocean.

6. North Pacific Gyres: This is a current that wraps in a circle trapping things that are floating around inside it, this is the biggest in the world, this is home to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

7. Pollutants: This is rubbish, plastic, particles or substances that pollutant the water or air.

8. Plastic Resin Pellets (‘Nurdles’): A small plastic pellet which serves as raw material in the manufacturing of plastic products

9. Accumulate: A gather or build up of plastic 

10. Synthetic: Fibre made in factors that are man made

11. Petroleum: It is a fossil fuel made from dead organism

12. Ingested: Swallowing or absorbing a substance.

13. Environmental catastrophe: