5 Gyres - Garbage islands.

Probably not many people think where it is going to stop our garbage beyond the dumps of garbage, I don't know really where are all of these garbage of the world, but I know some place in where are some garbage: in the ocean.
In our world exist five gyres of garbage product of the extent and effect of the pollution, and that are floating in our oceans, and we ignore that the most big of these "islands" are in our ocean, the Pacific ocean. The name of this gyre is The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a zone of the North Pacific ocean in where our garbage is accumulated in gyre form, this is created by the marine currents, the coordinates of this gyre are 135 º to 155º0 and 35 º to 42ºN, it has a size approximately of 1.400.000 km ². We might think that this waste is marine waste and that they come from the ships, but it is surprising that the major quantity of this waste come from the continent, and that the majority of the gyre of garbage is composed by plastic. This island of garbage is difficult to detect by means of photos satelitales and radars, this is in spite of the size and density of the "island". 

For more information I will leave these pages if you want to know more about this topic: 


http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0905/trans0509throughthegyre.html

http://5gyres.org/