Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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

1 comment:

  1. I heard another problem with the "picking it up with a net" theory is that the plastic disolves into tiny beads and is not easily seperated from the water.

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