#Giant pacfic itrash island Patch#

'Besides, the management and education of citizens' awareness of marine ocean protection is also an important task to avoid creating any other landfill for humanity' - Ocean Cleanup representative shared. Global sea and citizen activists are expecting the success of this potential project, because in addition to the Pacific garbage island, the world is 'owning' many other alarming landfills, including one in the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean with two beaches in the Atlantic. Until now, Slat confidently affirmed that cleaning up the world's oceans is extremely urgent, and humanity is fully feasible. This promising system is the brainchild of the Dutch teen prodigy, Boyan Slat.Īlthough he received a lot of mixed opinions from scientists, Slat steadfastly came up with his ideas and pursued it for the past 6 years. He gave a presentation about his ocean cleaning machine at the Tedx talk six years ago. In particular, this promising system is the brainchild of the Dutch teen prodigy, Boyan Slat. This complex system will kick off from San Francisco Bay within a few weeks and will begin its official operation in July this year, and will expand its reach later. The large floating anchor at a depth of hundreds of meters below the water surface is stable for the barrier, so that the system moves in the ocean current more slowly than the garbage allows the garbage collection on the front.Įvery 6-8 weeks the ships will come to take the garbage to the mainland for recycling. Nylon screens underneath prevent plastic waste without endangering marine animals. Ocean Cleanup system is used to block garbage, not floating anymore. The system is made of HDPE plastic that is flexible to bend in waves, hard to form a U-shaped fence to retain floating waste. It will serve as a plastic waste barrier floating to the world's largest garbage island.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific trash vortex, spans waters from the West Coast of North America to Japan. Marinedebrisis litter that ends up in oceans, seas, and other large bodies of water.

#Giant pacfic itrash island Patch#

Representatives revealed that this special system was huge, up to 610m long and was located in Alameda, California. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. They are about to launch the world's first ocean cleaning system, with extremely high levels of feasibility. This huge amount of plastic waste kills more than 100,000 marine animals each year, including whales, dolphins and seals.įor many years, hundreds of environmental projects have been studied and tested to rescue this sea, but have not produced positive results.īut luckily, the Dutch Ocean Cleanup non-profit organization, recently had a good sign. Garbage here is mainly used for fishing vessels and fishing gear, including nets and ropes. This trash island accumulates over 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic waste.

It is abbreviated as GPGP, located between California and Hawaii and has an area larger than all three countries Germany, France, and Spain added.Īccording to a recent study, it accumulated more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic waste, equivalent to 79 thousand tons of plastic, brought here by ocean currents. In the middle of the Pacific, there is a giant island made of. The garbage island in the middle of the Pacific is about the size of 3 European countries.