r/pics Aug 12 '21

The majority of plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is discarded fishing gear.

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u/seaspirit331 Aug 12 '21

You can raise awareness about the garbage patch without having to lie. It's largely made up of microplastics, not discarded fishing gear like what the woman in this picture is standing on

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u/IMx03 Aug 12 '21

Micro plastics are everywhere. It wouldn’t be a garbage patch if it was made of micro plastics. It would just the the ocean.

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u/seaspirit331 Aug 12 '21

The microplastics that make up the pacific garbage patch are kept there by a series of ocean currents called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre and are drawn into the center of the fringes of the gyre where they are concentrated into these garbage patches

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u/agreenmeany Aug 12 '21

Why are you being downvoted? You are making a factually accurate statement with nothing controversial in it!?

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u/theborch909 Aug 12 '21

People don't like FACTS that conflict with their OPINIONS