The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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the great pacific garbage patch.
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It is one word and it's in our care for
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the first time in history of humanity For the first
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time in 500 million years, one species has the future
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in the palm of its hands.
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I just hope he realizes that this is the case.
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Sir. David Attenborough.
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Next one map of the great pacific garbage patch.
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The great pacific garbage patch is a collection of ocean
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rubbish in the north pacific ocean, also known as the
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pacific trash trash vortex.
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The garbage patch is actually two distinct collections of rubbish
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linked by the massive north pacific subtropical gyre.
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The great pacific garbage patch stretches the waters from the
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west coast of North America to Japan.
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The great pacific garbage patch is not not the only
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marine trash water tax, it's just the biggest, the atlantic
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and indian oceans both have trash for taxes.
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Even shipping routes in smaller bodies of water such as
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the North Sea are developing garbage patches.
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Bottom left picture on the top right picture.
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We're going to the top.
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Bottom. Bottom left fast.
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So this is where all the I shouldn't guys are
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in the world.
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Top left at top right.
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Sorry. Same thing here.
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Yeah, screw back.
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We're going to another one.
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Data data on the great great pacific garbage patch.
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Universe 1940 using of plastic has become widespread since then.
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Left picture.
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Yeah. Okay, so you can see here, it's telling you
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how long these rubbish different types of rubbish last in
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the ocean.
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Okay, right hand side pick japanese.
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Um so this is saying how much percent of the
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how much percent of each thing is in the ocean.
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Microplastics accounts for 94% of plastics in the Great Pacific
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Garbage Patch.
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Yeah. The Garbage Patch is 2.3 times bigger than Texas.
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2.5 times bigger than France.
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Yeah, 725 times bigger than the largest landfill apex regional
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And 2040 times bigger than New York City.
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Okay, next one please.
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Next one is ocean currents, patient currents.
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The area in the center of the guy, it tends
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to be very calm, unstable.
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The circular motion of the guy a draws trash into
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the stable centre where it becomes trapped.
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A plastic water bottle discarded off the coast of California,
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for instance, takes the California current south towards Mexico that
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it may catch the north equatorial current which crosses the
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vast pacific near the coast of Japan.
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The bottle may travel north on the powerful Corey Sha
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Cory, She very current.
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Finally, the bottle travels in the east.
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On the north pacific current, the gently rolling vortexes of
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the eastern and western garbage patches gradually draw in the
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bottle. The amount of rubbish in the great pacific garbage
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patch grows because much of it is not biodegradable.
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Well many plastics for instance do not wear down.
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They simply break into tiny and tiny pieces until they
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become microscopic.
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Yeah. Okay, reducing plastic pollution.
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What can we do because the group pacific garbage patch
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is so far from any country's coastline.
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No nation will take responsibility or provide the funding to
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clean it up, Charles moore.
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The man who discovered the vortex says cleaning up the
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garbage patch would bankrupt any country that tried to.
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Therefore individual organizations and members of society must take on
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the responsibility to reduce plastic consumption.
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Top left picture things you can do for trash free
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seas. Okay.
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Top break picture nine Ways to reduce plastic in your
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school. Oh bottom.
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My picture, how to make a bag from a T
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shirt. Some wonderful but some people useless information still it's
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not plastic.
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Okay, so here is a website for the clean up
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of the er three days.
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Yeah. Okay.
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Last little bit my opinion at our current stage of
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pollution. If nobody reacts with a particular plan to heal
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the wounds we created in the oceans and all around
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the world, who knows what the next generation will do
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about this vast situation.
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If we want our world to be like, it used
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to all wonderful and clean, we need to act fast
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for the damage is irreparable, irreparable.
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Okay, there is a Youtube video that we're going to
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quickly watch and with through.
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So you couldn't get clean idea if it was about
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to walk.
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Mhm, sadly we'll come back to it, but it doesn't
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quite work at the minute.
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Yeah. Okay.
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Change for the better.
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More than 60 nations have taken steps to reduce single
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use plastics by imposing bands or taxes According to a
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United Nations report published last year in March, the European
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Union's Parliament voted to ban the top 10 single use
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plastic items bound on European beaches by 2021.
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The EU measure also calls for 90% of plastic bottles
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to be recycled by 2025.
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Step two Yeah.
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The plastics pack a collaboration of businesses which has set
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a target to eliminate unnecessary single use plastic packaging for
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all plastic packaging to be reusable recyclable or come possible
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And for 70% to be recycled or composted by 25.
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Step three.
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The plastics Industry recycling Action Plan P.
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I. I.
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P. An industry action plan which includes increased collection of
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recyclable plastics, improved sorting and developing end markets for recycled
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plastics. Step four by Norbert, the Office for Environmental Protection,
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recycling used items into new products.
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Products is one of the three targets set by the
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commitment. Cooperation's joining commitment must also phase out single use
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plastic Packaging and ensure it can either be reused, recycled
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or composted.
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By 2025, 50 organizations responsible for 20% of the plastic
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packaging produced around the world have committed to reducing waste
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and pollution.
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Okay. And that is Bye Jack Cochran, which is me.
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Ha ha ha.
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And I hope you like my presentation and if you
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can get back to me on class to do that.
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Perfect. Thanks.
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Bye.