Don't forget about the gigantic blob of plastic in the pacific ocean that all plastic bags gravitate too.
Has something to do with gyres.
Has something to do with gyres.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has been known for over two decades. The center of the North Pacific Gyre is a relatively stationary region of the North Pacific Ocean, an area often referred to as the horse latitudes. The circular rotation around it draws waste material in and has led to the accumulation of flotsam and other debris. The plastic debris gathers in concentrations of one million pieces of plastic per square mile in some areas. While historically this debris has biodegraded, the gyre is now accumulating vast quantities of plastic and marine debris. Rather than biodegrading, plastic photodegrades, disintegrating in the ocean into smaller and smaller pieces. These pieces, still polymers, are eventually the size of individual molecules, which are still not easily digested.[1] Some plastics photodegrade into other pollutants.
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