Garbage...Little or Big It's Still A Problem.

There seems to be a lot of misconception on The Great Garbage Gyre as well on the actual size of it. The Garbage Patch has been given many names one being an "Giant Island" but in reality it is made up of small microscopic piece of plastics with an area of 5000 sq. km and this amount has increased significantly over the past 40 years. In reality "most plastic size are about the size of your pinky fingernail" of course there is plastics of greater sizes but the majority are very small, but it's not the size of plastic but the amount of the plastic that is spread across the ocean.
 And that itself is effecting the marine ecosystem also known as "The Plastisphere" meaning an ecosystem out of balance with all of the plastic and garbage just sitting around more and more kinds of insects mainly water skaters are thriving on this garbage. One thing that is officially now a problem is that this itself could attract and transport invasive insects. The open ocean is mainly inhabited with lantern fish but if this problem continues there will be more plastic than fish and eventually having more water skaters and causing an unbalanced ecosystem, this could and will have a massive impact on native life that has kept our oceans healthy for years.


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Effects on Marine Life

Over the past years the amount of broken down plastic found in the Great Garbage patch has increased significantly.Plastic is a magnet for toxic chemicals like DDT and PCB that exist in seawater. Besides causing toxic effects on the marine life, it is also mistaken by the endocrine system as estradiol  which causes hormone distribution. 

Marine trash, mainly plastic, is killing more than a million sea birds and a hundred thousand mammals and sea turtles each year. Plastic bags and polystyrene foam has been found in stomachs of dead sea lions dolphins, turtles and other marine life.

 Researchers have found that an insect that skims the waters of the ocean, have began to lay their eggs on the plastic debris. scientists are worried that due to these circumstances, it may harm the habitat of these insects.

 http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/06/63699

Could We Clean Up The Great Pacific Garbage Path?

   Their is tons of garbage  floating in the pacific ocean current day. Many ask, "Why havent we started a clean up process". The answer is simple. Their is just not enough money that any one could actually put into this process. Plus their is not enough time to clean up such a mess.
  In order to be able to clean up  the Garbage Gyre we would need ships to collect all the waste and transport it back to land. That is a little easier said than done. Ships would require massive amounts of fuel in order to be able to go from the Gyre to the nearest port which is a weeks voyage. Ships  can only carry so much waste as well as fuel, therefore it would be a difficult task transporting recycled waste.
   One way ships could clean up the waste would be collecting the waste and compacting it and the other would be collecting waste with a net and towing it to the nearest port. With that another problem arises; the wildlife living amongst all the trash. Scientist are trying to figure out a way that they could collect waste without harming any of the wild life.Till this day, no cleaning begin.
 I believe the best way to be able to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Gyre would be stopping trash from being dumped into the ocean. If people keep contributing to the accumulation of waste in the ocean, trying to clean up the Gyre would be pointless.

Sources:http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/clean-up-great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/clean-up-garbage-patch.htm