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//Trash Vortex//. (n.d.). Retrieved 2012, from green Peace website: [] Facts > =====These ocean hitch-hikers can then invade new habitats to become possible nuisance species.===== > =====Of course, not all plastic floats. In fact around 70 percent of discarded plastic sinks to the bottom.=====
 * 1) =====The trash vortex is an area the size of Texas in the North Pacific in which an estimated six kilos of plastic for every kilo of natural plankton, along with other slow degrading garbage, swirls slowly around like a clock, choked with dead fish, marine mammals, and birds who get snared. Some plastics in the gyre will not break down in the lifetimes of the grandchildren of the people who threw them away.=====
 * 2) =====Around 100 million tonnes of plastic are produced each year of which about 10 percent ends up in the sea. About 20 percent of this is from ships and platforms, the rest from land.=====
 * 3) =====A single one litre bottle could break down into enough small fragments to put one on every mile of beach in the entire world.=====
 * 4) =====The larger items, however, are consumed by seabirds and other animals which mistake them for prey. Many seabirds and their chicks have been found dead, their stomachs filled with medium sized plastic items such as bottle tops, lighters and balloons. A turtle found dead in Hawaii had over a thousand pieces of plastic in its stomach and intestines.=====
 * 5) =====Over a million sea-birds and one hundred thousand marine mammals and sea turtles are killed each year by ingestion of plastics or entanglement.=====
 * 6) =====This perhaps wouldn't be too much of a problem if the plastic had no ill effects.=====
 * 7) =====There is a sinister twist to all this as well. The plastics can act as a sort of "chemical sponge"=====
 * 8) =====The North Pacific gyre is one of five major ocean gyres and it is possible that this Trash Vortex problem is one which is present in other oceans as well.=====
 * 9) =====The floating plastics can also affect marine ecosystems in a surprising way, by providing a ready surface for organisms to live on.=====