Ocean Garbage Patch Documentary

Plastic Paradise. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. And yet its become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, In this independent documentary film.

Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. And yet its become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, In this independent documentary film.

Come aboard as the VICE crew takes a cruise to the Northern Gyre in the Pacific Ocean, TOXIC: Garbage Island - Part The garbage patch is located at one of the.

Встроенное видео  Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an upcoming independent documentary film by docujournalist Angela Sun that focuses.

Vice sails to the North Pacific Gyre, collecting point for all of the ocean s flotsam and home of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: a mythical, Texas-sized island made entirely of our trash.

As long as it s existed, the middle of the Gyre has been a naturally occurring point of accumulation for all the drifting trash in its half of the ocean. Once upon a time, flotsam circled into the middle of the Gyre and because up until the past century everything in the world was biodegradable was broken down into a nutrient-rich stew perfect for fish and smaller invertebrates to chow on.

The problem with plastic is, unless you hammer it with enough pressure to make a diamond, it never fully disintegrates. Over time plastic will photodegrade all the way down to the individual polymers, but those little guys are still in it for the long haul. This means that except for the slim handful of plastics designed specifically to biodegrade, every synthetic molecule ever made still exists.

Plastic from around the world converges in a whirling gyre known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. into a documentary. An Ocean of Plastic with.