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recycles 20 technology eat trash Earth Pacific circle sunlight

GARBAGE ISLAND

You can't see it from the air . It's almost impossible to see from a ship . But somewhere in the North is a giant island of garbage , floating just below the ocean's surface .

HOW DID IT GET THERE ?

The garbage island is not really an island . It's a collection of millions of bits of plastic and other objects that people have thrown away , such as shopping bags and water bottles . Pacific Ocean currents bring the objects together and cause them to spin around in a giant . The spinning movement stops the garbage from escaping . New objects enter the spinning water , and the island grows larger .

No one really knows how big the island is . Some scientists say it is about 270 , 000 square miles ( 700 , 000 square kilometers ) . Some studies even report that it may be up to times larger ? twice the size of the continental United States .

WHAT PROBLEMS DOES IT CAUSE ?

The larger pieces of garbage in the island are a problem for wildlife . For example , sea turtles often think plastic bags are jellyfish ? their favorite food . They the plastic and die . Seabirds looking for food in the ocean may also die from eating plastic objects floating on the water .

In addition , tiny pieces of plastic near the ocean surface block sunlight from reaching deeper water . The lack of killsvery small sea organisms called plankton . As a result , there is less food for larger fish , such as tuna .

WHAT CAN WE DO ?

Cleaning up a giant island of plastic garbage isn't easy , but there may be some solutions . One method is to use technology to collect the and recycle it . Environmental engineer Cesar Harada is building a type of robot boat that gathers up trash . Harada hopes this robot will help reduce garbage in the Pacific .

New approaches to recycling can also help make more people awareof the problem . For example , singer and songwriter Pharrell Williams works with a company that plastic garbage to make denim for blue jeans . In this way , he combines his interest in fashion with his concern for the environment . If many people make small changes , it can have a big impact . As Williams says , " The ocean is just one part of the ? but the world is made up of 75 to 80 percent water . It's a huge place to start . "