CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE INDIAN OCEAN GARBAGE PATCH INTRODUCTION ESTIMATION OF SIZE LOCATION WHAT HAPPENS CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central...
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CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE INDIAN OCEAN GARBAGE PATCH INTRODUCTION ESTIMATION OF SIZE LOCATION WHAT HAPPENS CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres.The patch does not appear as a continuous debris field. As with other patches in each of the five oceanic gyres, the plastics in it break down to ever smaller particles, and to constituent polymers As with the other patches, the field constitutes an elevated level of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge, and other debris; primarily particles that are invisible to the naked eye. The concentration of particle debris has been estimated to be approximately 10,000 particles per square kilometer. A similar patch of floating plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean, the Great Pacific garbage patch, was predicted in 1985, and discovered in 1997 by Charles J. Moore
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