We are familiar with the seven contients in the world: Africa, Asia, South America, North America, Oceania, Europe and Antarcatica. We live on these seven continents, however, except for these seven continents, a new continent is taking shape.The Most Topflight Gifts Ever: ugg bailey button for Students
The scientific data say that there is a new continent forming between the Hawaii and California on the Pacific Sea. Actually it is a drifting body made of floating plastic and waste which are waved by the sea water, weighing hundreds of tons, covering an area about 14 million square kilometers. Scientists name it [Great Pacific Garbage Patch"; the media call it [the Eighth Continent". Among the residents, there are football shoes from USA, ruined part of fishing net from Japan, container outline from Canada, rubber circle from Korea, plastic bag from China. They would gather in the standard of United Nations. At present, this continent is still growing and has not formed solid land; beside the part which expands beyond seas of 1.4 square kilometers, its areas have doubled.Abercrombie & Fitch are the First in the List of Most Wanted Most-Wanted Pieces in 2009
The total volume of the trash reached over 7 millions with 3.3 million big and small plastic pieces on every square kilometer of sea surface. What`s more worrying is that it is not the only [Garbage Continent" on the ocean. Because there are four similar large-scale ocean swirl in the world. The scientists determine that they exist the aggregation of marine litters with different levels. Hawaii is the bright pearl in Pacific and its view is like the heaven when you go there for travel; Guam`s coasts will not loss the much impression of [blue, clear and white". But " the continent" is formed beside us, and we "indulge" ourselves in the "beauties", because people are used to take the ocean as a extremely large garbage dump, even regard the public sea as "the most ideal" place.
All kinds of pollutants produced in our daily life and manufactures flow into the sea by rivers, ships or marine dumping. They sank to the bottom of the sea or float on the surface, then get washed ashore or assemble as is stated above. All the coastlines around the world are decorated with a giant color ribbon mad up of coke cans, beee cans, milk cans, mineral water bottles, cheap toys od various types and plastic products. This also happens in HK and other famous travelling destination, like Dubai, Red sea, Gulf of Guines, Mauritius, Seychelles and even the pearl beach of Maldives. There are still startling "non-low-carbon event" in the places people cherish so much. Seabirds are poisoned by junk food, and the marine lives die from suffocation.
The most terrible thing is the marine animal eating the poisoned pollution and the poison may one day be put at the dining-table through the way of the food chain. Charles. the discoverer of the eighth land expresses pessimistically that even if we deplete the financial resources of all countries, we can not remove the junks of north pacific grye. Therefore, the majority of scientists around the world believed that [the prevention" is bigger than [the improvement"; it is the most important and most effective to prevent from the source.
Everyone may be the maker of marine litter. You will become the sinner of "the history" if you are careless. Therefore, maintain the environment, keep the low-carbon life, start from me!