A continent of rubbish

We're learning about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in 2nd Year of Bachillerato. It's a huge sea of plastic in the middle of the Pacific ocean and it causes a lot of environmental damage. It's quite unbelievable how polluted this planet is getting!

As a complement, we have also watched a TED conference by Charles Moore, the man who discovered it and who is fighting to make things better for our oceans. You can choose the language of the subtitles.





You can find more information about Charles Moore and his foundation at http://www.algalita.org/ More on the life of plastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xlNyWPpB8 Finally, here you can see how the patch has increased and evolved through the years.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch [OC] from r/dataisbeautiful