Another Garbage Patch found in the Atlantic

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Another Garbage Patch found in the Atlantic
by Aaditya Singh \| 18-06-2013 05:56 0
Some days ago, I had written about the Great pacific Garbage Patch (Great only in size!). This article is a continuation of that. Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Plastic vortex, scientists say. Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but this issue has essentially been ignored in the Atlantic. The Atlantic garbage patch sits hundreds of miles off the North American coast and covers a region between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude—roughly the distance from Cuba to Virginia. As with the Pacific garbage patch, plastic can circulate in this part of the Atlantic Ocean for years, posing health risks to fish, seabirds, and other marine animals that accidentally eat the litter

Youth Aaditya Singh