{"id":8993,"date":"2016-07-16T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:51:24","slug":"the-trash-vortex-greenpeace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/archives\/8993","title":{"rendered":"Plastic emergency at sea: The Trash Vortex by Greenpeace"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">tempo di lettura: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minuti<\/span><\/span><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<a class=\"maxbutton-4 maxbutton maxbutton-livello-di-comprensione\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><span class='mb-text'>livello elementare<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">ARGOMENTO: EMERGENZE AMBIENTALI<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">PERIODO: XX SECOLO<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">AREA: OVUNQUE<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nparole chiave: plastica<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/en\/campaigns\/oceans\/fit-for-the-future\/pollution\/trash-vortex\/\">Greenpeace<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">You could save a turtle\u2019s life by using less plastic and making sure your garbage is properly managed. In the North Pacific is an area the size of Turkey of floating plastic rubbish. It is rubbish from the land that is polluting our oceans, choking and trapping millions of fish and animals. We can keep plastic trash out of our ocean and save ocean life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP04OEQ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP04OEQ.jpg\" alt=\"A green sea turtle swims over the coral gardens of Apo Island. This Marine Protected Area (MPA) was destroyed by Typhoon Pablo in December 2012. An increase in extreme weather events is one of the predicted effects of climate change. Greenpeace is in Apo island as part its Philippine leg of the Ocean Defenders Tour of South East Asia&quot;.\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP04OEQ.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP04OEQ-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">A green sea turtle swims over the coral gardens of Apo Island.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">This Marine Protected Area (MPA) was destroyed by Typhoon Pablo in December 2012. An increase in extreme weather events is one of the predicted effects of climate change. Greenpeace is in Apo island as part its Philippine leg of the Ocean Defenders Tour of South East Asia&#8221;.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">Take a walk along almost any beach anywhere in the world and washed ashore will almost certainly be either plastic bags and bottles, or containers. Perhaps plastic drums or expanded polystyrene packing. All too often there are polyurethane foam pieces, pieces of polypropylene fishing net and discarded lengths of rope. Together with traffic cones, disposable lighters, tyres and even toothbrushes, this plastic trash has been casually thrown away on land or at sea and has been carried ashore by wind and tide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP0WAD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8994\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP0WAD.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic is displayed on a beach and the word Trash is spelt out from golf balls. The wide variety of items shown in this image highlight the diverse range of sources from which the plastics in our oceans originate. This is part of the Ocean Defenders Campaign in which the Greenpeace ship Esperanza MV sails to the Pacific Ocean, sometimes referred to as the North Pacific garbage patch, to document the threat that plastic poses to the environment and sea life.\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP0WAD.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP0WAD-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Plastic is displayed on a beach and the word Trash is spelt out from golf balls. The wide variety of items shown in this image highlight the diverse range of sources from which the plastics in our oceans originate. This is part of the Ocean Defenders Campaign in which the Greenpeace ship Esperanza MV sails to the Pacific Ocean, sometimes referred to as the North Pacific garbage patch, to document the threat that plastic poses to the environment and sea life.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">One of the things that makes plastic so heavily used domestically and commercially &#8211; its durability &#8211; also makes it a major problem for our oceans, and will continue to do so for generations. Around 100 million tonnes of plastic are produced each year, of which about 10 million tonnes ends in the sea. About 80% of it comes from land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP01GKU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP01GKU.jpg\" alt=\"A Greenpeace activist displays an empty 'Wagner' toolbox found awash in the high seas of the Central North Pacific Ocean. This is part of the Ocean Defenders Campaign in which the Greenpeace ship Esperanza MV sails to the Pacific Ocean, sometimes referred to as the North Pacific garbage patch, to document the threat that plastic poses to environment and sea life.\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP01GKU.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP01GKU-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"; color: #008000;\">A Greenpeace activist displays an empty &#8216;Wagner&#8217; toolbox found awash in the high seas of the Central North Pacific Ocean. This is part of the Ocean Defenders Campaign in which the Greenpeace ship Esperanza MV sails to the Pacific Ocean, sometimes referred to as the North Pacific garbage patch, to document the threat that plastic poses to environment and sea life.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">The larger items are the visible signs of a much bigger problem. At sea and on shore under the influence of sunlight, wave action and mechanical abrasion these larger items slowly break up into smaller pieces. Plastic doesn\u2019t break down like natural materials \u2013 it doesn\u2019t go away, it just goes from being a floating bottle to tiny plastic particles that are easily eaten by fish and other marine species or simply spread even further afield. A single one-litre bottle could break down into enough small fragments to put one on every mile of beach in the entire world. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">Small plastic pellets aren\u2019t just the result of natural erosion. Cargo ships are increasingly carrying packing cases using small plastic pellets as stuffing and these are liberally dispersed across the oceans when drum-loads or even container loads are lost at sea. The pellets are frequently found during beach clean-ups, but also at sea in areas where winds and currents are weak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/en\/campaigns\/oceans\/fit-for-the-future\/pollution\/trash-vortex\/\">http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/en\/campaigns\/oceans\/fit-for-the-future\/pollution\/trash-vortex\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif; font-size: 18pt;\">The &#8220;Trash Vortex\u201d<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">The North Pacific sub-tropical gyre covers a large area of the Pacific, in which the water circulates clockwise in a slow spiral. Winds are light and the currents tend to push any floating material into the low energy centre of the gyre. There are few islands on which some of the floating material beaches. So most of it stays there in the gyre, in astounding quantities &#8211; estimated at six kilos of plastic for every kilo of plankton. The \u201cTrash Vortex\u201d, also known as the \u201cEastern Garbage Patch\u201d, is an area equivalent in size to Texas, or Turkey, or Afghanistan, that slowly rotates our rubbish in a never-ending rotation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP03QPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP03QPG.jpg\" alt=\"Sea birds, one with a piece of plastic fishing net stuck around its neck. 20 miles off the coast of Mauritania. Greenpeace is campaigning in West Africa for the establishment of a sustainable, low impact fisheries policy that takes into account the needs and interests of small-scale fishermen and the local communities that depend on healthy oceans.\" width=\"850\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP03QPG.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP03QPG-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Sea birds, one with a piece of plastic fishing net stuck around its neck. 20 miles off the coast of Mauritania.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Greenpeace is campaigning in West Africa for the establishment of a sustainable, low impact fisheries policy that takes into account the needs and interests of small-scale fishermen and the local communities that depend on healthy oceans.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">Some of the larger items 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 bottle tops, lighters and balloons.\u00a0A turtle found dead in Hawaii had over a thousand pieces of plastic in its stomach and intestines. It has been estimated that over a million seabirds and one hundred thousand marine mammals and sea turtles are killed each year by either eating or getting tangled in six-pack plastic can holders, and discarded netting, fishing lines and other bits of discarded plastic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Chemical sponge<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span>Plastics can also act as a sort of &#8220;chemical sponge&#8221;, concentrating many of the most damaging of the pollutants found in the world\u2019s oceans: the persistent organic pollutants (POPs). So any animal eating these pieces of plastic debris will also be taking in highly toxic pollutants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Ocean hitchhikers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">Bits of floating plastic can also provide easy transport for plants and animals to move into oceans beyond their normal habitat \u2013 these alien species often causing major problems by disturbing the natural balance of the ecosystem.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP019M3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8999\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP019M3.jpg\" alt=\"Fish swim inside an abandoned Japanese crate found in the high seas of the Central North Pacific Ocean. This is part of the Ocean Defenders Campaign in which the Greenpeace ship Esperanza MV sails to the Pacific Ocean, sometimes referred to as the North Pacific garbage patch, to document the threat that plastic poses to the environment and sea life.\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP019M3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ocean4future.org\/savetheocean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/GP019M3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Fish swim inside an abandoned Japanese crate found in the high seas of the Central North Pacific Ocean. This is part of the Ocean Defenders Campaign in which the Greenpeace ship Esperanza MV sails to the Pacific Ocean, sometimes referred to as the North Pacific garbage patch, to document the threat that plastic poses to the environment and sea life.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">The North Pacific gyre is one of five major ocean gyres. The Sargasso Sea is a well-known slow circulation area in the Atlantic, and research there has also demonstrated high concentrations of plastic particles present in the water \u2013 it\u2019s own Trash Vortex. The Sargasso Sea is home to a rich selection of marine life including fish, turtles and whales and is the breeding ground of the European eel.The Sargasso Sea one of the areas identified by Greenpeace that should be protected as an Ocean Sanctuary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">What can we do to protect ocean life from the perils of plastic?<\/span><br \/>\nSome ideas can be found on our toolkit and resources page. Tweet Greenpeace with your ideas too and we\u2019ll add them to the list.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alcune delle immagini possono essere state prese dal web, citandone ove possibile gli autori e\/o le fonti. 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