Most of the trash comes from land in North America and Asia, like plastic bottles and straws that have found their way into the ocean. What kind of garbage is in the mounds of ocean trash? This is because as much as 70% of the trash eventually sinks to the bottom of the ocean, Wallace said. You could sail through the patches without even noticing you're in them.
While you may think the patches are solid masses of tangled plastic, they're actually dispersed across hundreds of miles of the Pacific.
They're also known as gyres, which is when two ocean currents come together and create a hurricane-like current, Nancy Wallace, director of the Marine Debris Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told CNET. The two whirlpools of human detritus are known as the Western Garbage Patch (closer to Japan) and the Eastern Garbage Patch (closer to California and Mexico). The garbage patch is two vortices filled with trash in the Pacific Ocean. Where is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Here is the outcome of one haul this fall. The Ocean Cleanup's goals include eliminating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Here's everything we know about the island of trash in the Pacific Ocean and how you can help. Addressing the climate crisis requires reducing pollution in the oceans, which collect 8 million tons of plastic yearly. Plastic pollution and microplastics have been shown to contribute to climate change, since heat can cause them to release greenhouse gases. At the summit, roughly 200 nations are meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, to negotiate an updated agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in an attempt to keep temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Ocean trash is only one area of focus as world leaders continue to meet for COP26 this week, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which lasts through Nov.
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