{"id":24856,"date":"2021-01-17T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/?p=24856"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:05:25","slug":"pacific-rubbish-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travesiapirenaica.com\/en\/isla-de-basura-del-pacifico\/","title":{"rendered":"The eighth continent? The troubling Pacific Garbage Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pacific Garbage Island<\/strong> is a huge floating island of plastic, about 3 times the size of France, and growing at a worrying rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a large collection of marine debris accumulated in the North Pacific Ocean. This debris is rubbish that ends up in the ocean, seas and other large bodies of water such as rivers or lakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many scholars of the subject, rather than an island, something physical, it is more of a stain, a accumulated waste<\/strong> in the water, which are also at various depths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: The problem of plastic in the environment<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This huge floating plastic island between California and Hawaii contains at least 79,000 tonnes of discarded plastic covering an area of about 1.6 million square kilometres in total.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality, no one knows how much debris makes up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Moreover, since not all of the debris floats to the surface, it makes it even more of a problem. impossible to get rid of it<\/strong>. As the densest debris can sink centimetres or even several metres below the surface, it makes the area of the vortex almost impossible to measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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