Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Marine debris in our oceans has reached unimaginable proportions. Seagoers have described a garbage patch twice the size of Texas between Hawaii and the California coast. “There aren’t these islands of trash. They don’t exist,” says environmental scientist Marcus Eriksen, whose life mission is to solve the problem of marine plastic. “It’s more like a smog of micro-plastic particles … billions of them and very toxic over a wide area.” In this episode of Seeker, Eriksen says the dilemma is severely impacting marine life and human health and is incredibly difficult to study.
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