There is only one earth for human beings, which is a very popular slogan. Now there are more and more environmental protection organizations, but environmental problems are still difficult to solve. After all, this is not a matter of a region or a country, but a matter of all mankind, so it is also difficult to solve.
What I want to introduce to you today is also environmental issues. It is said that there are seven continents in this area, but the "garbage island" introduced today is called the "eighth continent". It is a continent with an area of 6.5438+0.4 million square kilometers and composed of 4 million tons of plastic waste. It floats in the Pacific Ocean as if it were a moving island.
The eighth continent lies between the west coast of the United States and Hawaii. 1 1 Years ago, an American captain named Charles Moore left Hawaii in his algie Tower. Originally, he wanted to take a shortcut to sail from the windless equator, but he accidentally discovered this "garbage island". The captain described the eighth continent like this. Everything he could see was endless rubbish with plastic hangers.
How big is this garbage island? It covers an area of 6.5438+0.4 million square kilometers, which is as big as 1.000 Hong Kong, as big as two American Texas, and as big as four Japanese, so it is still very vivid for scientists to call it "the eighth continent". And this "continent" is still moving. According to a report by the British Independent in February 2009, this garbage belt is spreading from Hawaii to Japanese and China waters.
Why is there such a big garbage belt in the vast Pacific Ocean? This area is an equatorial windless area, and neither sailors nor fishermen will set foot on it. It is called "the desert in the ocean", but over the years, countless marine wastes have drifted here.
1992, 29,000 yellow plastic ducklings made in China fell into the sea during the strong storm in the Pacific Ocean, and nearly 20,000 plastic ducklings came to the eighth continent. On the eighth continent, you can see American Nike sneakers, Japanese fishing nets and Canadian containers, while the garbage here 10% is fishing nets and 10% is sea. The remaining 80% plastic waste comes from land and enters the ocean through drainage pipes and other means.
Therefore, the culprit of this huge "garbage island" is the marine garbage produced by human beings. Now it has formed a huge island, and its area is still increasing. If it is not solved, it will be a big trouble for nearby animals and humans.
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