𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵Did you know that in the Pacific there is a huge PLASTIC ISLAND? That’s right, although perhaps defining it as an island, as we often read, is not correct.The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Pacific Waste Vortex, extends into waters from the west coast of North America to Japan.The garbage patch is actually composed of the Western Garbage Patch, located near Japan, and the Eastern Garbage Patch, located between the United States, Hawaii and California.More than an island, as we can imagine, it is formed by a thick layer of floating plastic waste with variable densities.
It is not easy to define the precise dimensions but estimates range from 700 thousand km² to the impressive 10 million km², or more than the Iberian Peninsula.
The patch is the result of a complicated system of ocean currents and winds that direct plastic waste from across the Pacific to a circumscribed area, trapping it in a slow stationary vortex away from the coasts.
The waste inside it is of various sizes but about 90% is formed by the very dangerous micro-plastics, or plastic fragments of a few millimeters that remain suspended and that, given their size, easily enter the marine food chain, seriously threatening ecosystems and our health. 
The vast majority of this plastic comes from our cities, from landfills but managed and from abandoned waste, and that due to rain and rivers is then transported to the seas and oceans.
We must not think that the “plastic islands” are a phenomenon that concerns only the oceans because even in the Mediterranean accumulations of waste are cyclically born. Between the Island of Elba and Corsica, for example, a huge plastic island tens of kilometers long and composed of tons and tons of waste is cyclically formed.
Everything starts from us, from our habits, and from our desire to give value to the precious plastic waste we produce.
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