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The pacific gyre is one big bundle of Rubbish that is twice the size of Texas and weighs about 1 million tons and it is 7 million square meters .But the height of it (including under water) is undetectable with human eyes and satellites.It is rotating clockwise like the eye of a hurricane in mid Pacific Ocean.We do not know exactly what’s living on it, or how widely it has damaged the natural ocean ecosystem.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was predicted in 1988 and was published by the National oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA) of the United States.The prediction was based on results made by several Alaskan researchers between 1985 and 1988 that the neuston plastic in the North Pacific Ocean was going to become a trash vortex.When they first predicted that there was going to be a vortex, they only thought there would be one in the sea of japan.But because of all the pollution and plastic that is affecting the ocean. The Pacific ocean now has a vortex and that vortex is called the Pacific Gyre.

The formation of the pacific gyre was to do with the pollution and the ocean current. Because of all the rubbish getting thrown and blown into the ocean,and the ocean current. The current is blowing all the rubbish together and it all molds together.

There is no strong scientific data concerning the substances of the plastics. They figure that an estimated 80% of the garbage comes from land-based sources and 20% from ships is derived from an unsubstantiated estimate.