Search for
Missing Malaysian Plane Proves How
Much Trash Is in Our Oceans
Searchers scouring the waters of the Indian Ocean off Australia’s west coast have **t yet succeeded in locating the
missing Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200, but they have focused global attention on just how many pieces of manmade detritus is floating in our oceans
Search personnel have referred to the trash, which ranges in size as small as a plastic water bottle to as large as a 70-foot long shipping container, with different descriptors, from garbage to the more unfamiliar and nautical term “
flotsam.”
Although the
Search area is **t located in the famous
Great Pacific Ocean “garbage *****,” it is located at the edge of one of five “gyres” where ocean currents and the atmospheric circulation draws in waste like a magnet
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