#smttxgreatpacificgarbagepatch

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29.2599° N, 47.6707° E

Sulaibiya, Kuwait

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ocean cleanup team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=VxMATP5oRx4

https://theoceancleanup.com/careers/

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Floating Plastics

#01 - This crate found in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was produced in 1977.

#02 - This hard hat dates back to 1989.

#03 - This cover of a Nintendo Gameboy was produced in 1995.

#04 - Ocean Plastic Type H: Hard plastic, plastic sheet or film

#05 - Ocean Plastic Type N: Plastic lines, ropes, and fishing nets

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5 patches of trash

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is the largest of the five offshore plastic accumulation zones in the world’s oceans.

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Great Pacific Garbage Patch

floating plastics

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Facts on GPGP

source: The Ocean Cleanup

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is the largest of the five offshore plastic accumulation zones in the world’s oceans. It is located halfway between Hawaii and California.

It is estimated that 1.15 to 2.41 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean each year from rivers.

The GPGP covers an estimated surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers, an area twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France.

At the time of sampling, there were more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic in the patch that weigh an estimated 80,000 tonnes. These figures are much higher than previous calculations.

TOTAL MASS AND COUNT

The mass of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) was estimated to be approximately 80,000 tonnes, which is 4-16 times more than previous calculations. This weight is also equivalent to that of 500 Jumbo Jets.

The center of the GPGP has the highest density and the further boundaries are the least dense. When quantifying the mass of the GPGP, the team chose to account only for the denser center area. If the less-dense outer region was also considered in the total estimate, the total mass would then be closer to 100,000 tonnes.