The hidden ways ocean currents change our world, with Helen Czerski
Instant Genius
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The Janthina and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge island of plastic formed by swelling currents. It takes a long time for plastic to get from the land into the centre of a gyre. organisms eat it thinking that it's food and then they're getting no nutrition. The message of the ocean garbage patch is that what we have to do is stop putting it in. We can take out the big pieces of fishing gear, although actually you tend to find that they've got their own ecosystems attached to them. Things are using the michelter, things are using them as a substrate to live on. And that's a very significant problem. But the solution is to stop Putting it in.
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