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Billions Of Peoples' Trash...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: The World's Largest Landfill

What Can We Do?

...Could very well be another man's treasure. What we may view as a disastrous mess can also be seen as millions of tons of free resources. If a company can turn the plastic into a combustible fuel, or recycle it to make new products (that are more easily and cleanly disposed of), then they have a huge resource to access. This will provide the incentive to remove the trash from the ocean.

THANKS FOR WATCHING!

We need engineers and entrepreneurs! If have a business idea that could work or are an expert in inorganic chemical engineering, contact me at 1-734-904-4740 or garbagetogasolineproject@gmail.com

With the right combination of entrepreneurship, equipment, and chemical engineering, something can be done that is not only profitable, but helps solve this gargantuan environmental dilemma.

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Anyone who drives will benefit from using plastic-made fuels, and they will most likely be available at a lower cost than fossil fuels. Those with environmental concerns and people who care about their fuel not gunking up their engine in particular will love the new fuel.

Transforming plastic waste into useable fuel is already reality. Fuels can be derived from plastic waste that are identical to gasoline, diesel and kerosene. Not only do they work as well as their fossil fuel counterparts, the burn cleaner and more efficiently, with fewer harmful emissions. These fuels can be made very cheaply.

Fueling The World With Garbage

There is such a great amount of trash that cleanup operations are expensive and don't make a huge dent. Expeditions have been made both to assess the situation and help clean. But there needs to be more economic incentive for things to really get done...

The Impact

The Garbage Patch has a massive impact on the environment. Marine plastic debris affects 267 species worldwide, some of which live in the North Pacific Gyre.

These species include the rare black-footed albatross and sea turtles. Almost all of the albatrosses found at or near the Gyre, almost all have plastics in their digestive tract. Marine life often will eat bits of trash that resemble food. Some can look like fish, and plastic bags appear like jellyfish.

The North Pacific Gyre is home to plankton, billions of them. The plankton play a large part in processing carbon dioxide, which we humans expel a lot of. They need sunlight to do this, but the trash blocks much of this energy from reaching the deep living plankton

The Air We Breath

A Real Life, Gigantic Sea Monster

The garbage patch formed over many years as the North Pacific Gyre, a giant spiraling current, took trash that was floating in the ocean to its calm center, from which there is no escape for the garbage.

What's in it? Mostly plastics. 80% of the waste is from land sources, 20% from ships at sea. Of the 200 billion+ pounds of garbage humanity produces each year, 10% ends up in the ocean.

It lurks out the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Two times the size of Texas, and lethally poisonous. It is a behemoth like no other and made entirely...

OF OUR TRASH

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Much of the trash exists below the surface as microplastics, tiny bits of trash smaller than the naked eye can see. This is why you can't see the patch via Google Earth. 70% of the trash in the ocean eventually sinks to the bottom damaging the ocean floor ecosystem.

Deep Down

Works Cited

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

-http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm

-http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/?ar_a=1

-http://www.inspirationgreen.com/plastic-waste-as-fuel.html

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