Chemical runoff from fields flows into streams and then accumulates in lakes and large ocean patches.
Van Sebille, E., England, M. & Froyland, G. Origin, dynamics and evolution of ocean garbage patches from observed surface drifters.
Circulating currents gather the floating refuse of modern society into enormous regions that have been dubbed the "great ocean garbage patches".
Most famously, some of it accumulates in great Pacific ocean "garbage patches," which have particularly high plastic concentrations (however, this does not necessarily mean you will see a huge heap of trash floating on the ocean surface).
The waste gathers in vast oval-shaped ocean "garbage patches" formed by converging currents and winds.
Plastic isn't biodegradable, and the United States is one of the biggest contributors to ocean garbage patches, often described as floating islands of trash.
The group called the effort "a great example of local activists and decision-makers addressing the serious issue of plastic pollution". Plastic isn't biodegradable, and the United States is one of the biggest contributors to ocean garbage patches, often described as floating islands of trash.
Carbon emissions, ocean gyre garbage patches, hunger, natural disasters, water shortage, the list of chaotic material dispositions goes on.
(The patch of ocean that the scientists will fertilize is roughly one-millionth the size of the rest of the ocean).
Readers, now, will choose their patch of ocean.
