大太平洋垃圾补丁 - 从老挝到夏威夷

什么是太平洋垃圾补丁？

如果您想知道会发生什么所有的垃圾人类创造, after some consideration – and few available answers – you have probably concluded that it’s ‘probably dealt with properly.’ This is often the case, but sadly there are some companies – and people too – who treat the natural world as something of a garbage dump. It might seem like if you chuck a plastic drinks bottle into the water off the coast of the UK that it just disappears – or maybe you’ve just never thought about it. The reality is that it doesn’t just disappear; it joins the other billions of pieces of rubbish, domestic and industrial, that are dumped into the sea each year. Whilst the oceans might cover 71% of the earth’s surface, they’re not a black hole and environmentalists have warned of serious consequences if they continue to be used as the world’s rubbish dump. Nowhere is this more apparent than the太平洋垃圾补丁。

估计其大小

听起来很奇怪 - 太平洋垃圾贴片。很奇怪的是，在海里的某个地方是一个巨大的水下垃圾垃圾场，但这正是在老挝和夏威夷之间延伸的地区发现的。尽管估计垃圾贴片的实际程度有所不同，但在2009年，它被认为是法国大小的两倍，而最近的数字则是美国大陆的两倍。The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is part of a much wider problem that us human beings have created for ourselves, which has resulted in there being more than 46,000 pieces of plastic per km squared in the world’s oceans, responsible for the deaths of millions of seabirds and mammals each year.

北太平洋的Gyre

大太平洋垃圾补丁不是人类故意创造的。虽然垃圾首先在海中显然归结为不负责任的男人（和女人），但世界上海洋的潮流和潮流都导致了所有这些都聚集在一个地方。垃圾贴片位于“北太平洋回旋”的中间，这是世界上五个旋转电流之一。由于回旋的性质，它将碎屑拉到其电流上，从而产生了一种磁铁效应。垃圾来自北太平洋，包括日本和北美海岸的海洋。它倾向于由基本上漂浮在水面或在表面下方的小塑料颗粒或物体组成，然后将其吸入GYRE电流，然后将其拉入其中心被困在其中心。

对野生动植物的影响

显然，大太平洋垃圾贴片的主要问题之一是它对野生动植物和哺乳动物的影响 - 对食用它的鸟类的胃，对毒素污染的海洋生物，甚至对人类污染当垃圾中的毒素被小鱼吸收时，这些鱼被大鱼食用，然后被人类食用。总体而言，几乎没有做的事情来清除该区域，但是在2008年，环境清理联盟是为了解决问题的。到目前为止，问题仍然有些不知所措和资源来解决它的势头。但是，随着该地区的明亮焦点现在更加明显，希望大太平洋垃圾贴片将来将不再存在。