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The patch is actually comprised of the western garbage patch located near japan.
Ocean floor buried in garbage. Images of common household waste swirling in vast garbage patches in the open sea or tangled up with whales and seabirds have turned plastic. London convention 1972 basel convention marpol 73 78 ocean floor disposal or sub seabed disposal a more deliberate method of delivering radioactive waste to the ocean floor and depositing it into the seabed was studied by the united kingdom and sweden but. As the paper makes clear plastic is already on the ocean floor remote islands buried underground in landfill sites and in the food chain. The great pacific garbage patch is a collection of marine debris in the north pacific ocean.
But while most of the news focus on the waste near coastlines and in areas such as the great pacific garbage patch approximately 94 per cent of this waste is actually located on the seafloor. The pacific ocean which for many carries connotations of beauty and romance is in fact a huge underwater garbage dump. Since 1993 ocean disposal has been banned by international treaties. Cameras examined the ocean floor as deep as 13 000 feet and found human made garbage everywhere.
Landfills and waste dumps are quickly filling up with many of the largest receiving on average 10 000 tons of. Burning trash outdoors is also harmful to the environment and people s health. Even the polar regions generally considered still to. Organizers of a massive ocean cleanup off deerfield beach set a guinness world record by having 633 divers in the water picking up debris june 15 2019.
Clearing tires from cocos lagoon in 1969 a team of guam fisheries scientists installed an artificial tire reef within cocos lagoon as a way to reuse old rubber tires. E very year 8m tons of plastic enters the ocean. This is why the european union funded seaclear project is focussing on cleaning up the ocean floor. The great pacific garbage patch also known as the pacific trash vortex spans waters from the west coast of north america to japan.
Marine debris is litter that ends up in oceans seas and other large bodies of water. We re making garbage patches on the ocean floor too microplastics are accumulating in ocean floor biodiversity hotspots.
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