The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Can we solve this problem? Can we create Awareness/Change?
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Evergreen Centre for Resource Excellence and Innovation Our students were able to spend a day with Inside Education at Evergreen. Students learned about the forest, techniques used in the forest and in past years they learned about how industry works with the forest in an environmentally responsible manner. |
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PAZA is a nonprofit, multi-stakeholder organization that conducts ambient air quality monitoring in northwestern Alberta. We monitor air quality in the Peace region
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Peace Watershed Association
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The area of increased plastic particles is located within the North Pacific Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres.
Visualisation showing ocean garbage patches.The Great Pacific garbage patch, also described as thePacific trash vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135°W to155°W and 35°N and 42°N.[1] The patch extends over an indeterminate area, with estimates ranging very widely depending on the degree of plastic concentration used to define the affected area.
The patch is characterized by exceptionally high relative concentrations of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and otherdebris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.[2] Because of its large area, it is of very low density (4 particles per cubic meter), and therefore not visible from satellite photography, nor even necessarily to casual boaters or divers in the area. It consists primarily of a small increase in suspended, often microscopic, particles in the upper water column.
The area of increased plastic particles is located within the North Pacific Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres.
Visualisation showing ocean garbage patches.The Great Pacific garbage patch, also described as thePacific trash vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135°W to155°W and 35°N and 42°N.[1] The patch extends over an indeterminate area, with estimates ranging very widely depending on the degree of plastic concentration used to define the affected area.
The patch is characterized by exceptionally high relative concentrations of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and otherdebris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.[2] Because of its large area, it is of very low density (4 particles per cubic meter), and therefore not visible from satellite photography, nor even necessarily to casual boaters or divers in the area. It consists primarily of a small increase in suspended, often microscopic, particles in the upper water column.