The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Name: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Uploaded: 2013-02-04T11:16:16+00:00
Duration: 1 min 31 s
Channel: AFP English
Description: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge mass of rubbish, or trash vortex, held in place in the north-east of the Pacific Ocean by swirling underwater currents. This build-up of marine debris is a danger to many marine mammals, birds and underwater ecosystems as a whole. VIDEOGRAPHIC

AFP English

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge mass of rubbish, or trash vortex, held in place in the north-east of the Pacific Ocean by swirling underwater currents. This build-up of marine debris is a danger to many marine mammals, birds and underwater ecosystems as a whole. VIDEOGRAPHIC

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