The GPGP

 Pollution in the Eastern Pacific Ocean 

A man named Charles Moore had come across a large patch of trash within the Eastern part of the pacific ocean while sailing on his way home. The GPGP is an area of the Pacific ocean containing billions upon billions of plastic waste that has degraded over the years into tiny microplastics. The GPGP was formed because of pollution by humans and gyres. A gyre is a circular current in the ocean that occurs when the wind is blowing in the shape of a circle, because of this current it often pulls in trash.

The cause of all of this rubbish ending up in the pacific ocean is the wrongdoing of humans, by this I'm talking about people littering, fast food restaurants & supermarkets using plastic bags, straws, cups, lids etc etc. We know that us humans are the cause of all the plastic waste ending up in the Pacific Ocean because plastic was invented by mankind and it was also thrown around by (mankind), because the plastic is just sitting around doing nothing it gets pushed by the wind into the ocean killing and affecting our marine life and our environment.

The GPGP affects our environment & marine life because our marine species like seabirds, turtles and fish etc. They tend to mistake plastic in the ocean for food. Once they ingest the plastic, after a couple of days they start to feel sick and not too well and this is the part where they start to die of starvation and sickness and it's sad because knowing that these poor creatures that were just desperately looking for food died because of (our) actions is just sickening and this is why us humans (the problem) gotta clean up our act and start taking accountability for our actions.