Mar 29 2019 hand drawn vector drawing of plastic garbage floating in ocean environment pollution issue. These are large systems of moving ocean currents. While they circulate ocean waters theyre also drawing in the pollution that we release in coastal areas known as marine debris.
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In the ocean the sun breaks down these plastics into tinier and tinier pieces a process known as photodegradation.
Ocean garbage drawing. The most famous example of a gyres tendency to take out our trash is the great pacific garbage patch located in the north pacific gyre. The plastic comes mainly from litter which falls off of boats is left on beaches or washes downstream in rivers. The best way of visualizing the great pacific garbage patch is to imagine a big soup floating in the ocean like oil does. San francisco its back to the drawing board for engineers at the ambitious ocean cleanup a dutch non profit that in october launched a plastic cleanup system meant to rid the worlds oceans.
In a systematic drawing you would see that the water is circulating like a vortex. The five garbage patches occur in each of the north and south atlantic the north and south pacific and the middle of the indian ocean. Areas that contain the largest numbers of plastic are the ocean gyres. The great pacific garbage patch stretches across a swath of the north pacific ocean forming a nebulous floating junk yard on the high seas.
Its the poster child for a worldwide problem. The plastic comes mainly from litter which falls off of boats is left on beaches or washes downstream in rivers. Included files are eps and hi res jpg. Scientists have collected up to 750000 bits of microplastic in a single square kilometer of the great pacific garbage patchthats about 19 million bits per square mile.
Plastic that begins in human hands yet ends up in the ocean often inside animals stomachs or around their necks. The five garbage patches occur in each of the north and south atlantic the north and south pacific and the middle of the indian ocean. Black and white sketch on a transparent background.