Gyre Explained!
Melissa McGinnis is with Leslie Moyer from The 5 Gyres and she tells us what a gyre is. So a lot of people have heard of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch or The Plastic Ocean, or the Texas size floating island in the middle of the Pacific ocean from California to Hawaii. In fact, there are five not just one oceanic gyres. What a gyre is is a system of rotating currents that naturally happens within our oceans and since the advent of a lot of non-biodegradable waste, they wind up attracting toxins that don't go away. Leslie's organization, The 5 Gyres Institute, has researched into what has been called marine debris but we'd like to call it plastic, oceanic pollution. They travel to all the gyres across the world and take samples to come back with and to educate folks about what was actually within the gyres. What Leslie's team has found out in every single gyre they've visited is a plastic soup very similar to what you see in the video. How is this collection of debris in the gyres affecting sea life, marine life, even the human species? So people know for sure that fish are ingesting the plastic debris. We know sea birds are ingesting the plastic debris, and all manner of sea life are interacting with it, a lot of times, very negatively. What we don't know and what 5 Gyres is trying to draw the connection between is if humans are affected by this. The assumption is yes. Because if a small fish winds up ingesting plastic, which we all know it does, and then a larger fish <b>...</b>
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