ATLANTIC GARBAGE PATCH

The Pacific garbage patch has a girlfriend!!!

By VBS STAFF

Just kidding! It’s still there, it’s still horrifying, and it’s getting bigger. Wait, that’s not enough for you to despair about? Well how about this: Apparently trash in the Atlantic’s trying to compete with the Pacific patch. According to Kara Lavender Law of the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, there’s a patch long enough cover the distance between Virginia and Cuba. If you’ve ever driven down the Eastern seaboard, you know that’s a huge chunk of space.

Like the Pacific patch, this floating landfill consists mostly of tiny plastic shreds from consumer products that were originally designed to be thrown away after a few days or weeks. And just like its Pacific counterpart, this patch is dense. In some parts students have measured 520,000 bits of shit per square mile. If you hear about these problems and assume science has easy-beesy solution in the works to pull us out of this cluster fuck, think again. These garbage piles are huge, made of extremely rugged materials, and they’re devastating for the environment. Basically, now we’ve gone and fucked two of our planet’s glorious oceans.

By VBS STAFF 1 year ago

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