The North Pacific Garbage Patch

The North Pacific Garbage Patch

The garbage patch is adverted to an area in the North Pacific Ocean, concentrated with marine debris. Many people perceive with its name that the name garbage patch refers to a large and continuous patch of clearly observable items of marine debris like bottles and other garbage resembling a blanket of litter literally that should be able to be seen with satellite or aerial photographs. This perception is, however, simply not true. In this area, while litter things can be detected in conjunction with other debris like woebegone fishing nets, and mostly small ...