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Gyre Trouble
“The ocean is a soup and the stock is getting thicker.” - Captain Charles Moore
Oceanic gyres are gigantic swirling vortexes of wind and sea currents with calm waters at the center, like a huge eddy. Physicists usually explain the cause of oceanic gyres as the Coriolis effect, which depends on the velocity of an object (or mass of water) and centrifugal force. Gyres move clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counter-clockwise South of the Equator. There are massive gyres in all of Earth’s Oceans as well as many smaller swirls.
The North Pacific Gyre involves most of the northern Pacific Ocean. It circulates between the west Coast of North America, and the east coast of Asia, between the equator and 50° latitude. It occupies an area of approximately ten million square miles (34 million km²), about 2.5 times larger than the entire United States. The North Pacific Gyre involves four prevailing ocean currents: the North Pacific Current to the north, the California Current to the east, the North Equatorial Current to the south, and the Kuroshio Current to the west. Within the North Pacific Gyre there are smaller gyres as well. The North Pacific Central Gyre is roughly the size of Texas.
Sailors call the relatively calm center of the North Pacific Gyre the “Horse Latitudes” and usually try to avoid getting stuck there without wind and current to pull them out. Nowadays, it is not just sailors who get stuck in the North Pacific Gyre. When human trash finds its way into the ocean it gets washed ashore on the beaches, sinks to the bottom or spends years floating towards vortexes within the North Pacific Gyre. These smaller gyres have such a concentration of debris that they have been dubbed “garbage patches”. Since plastic does not biodegrade, it can potentially float in the middle of the ocean forever. The old plastic breaks into smaller and smaller pieces through a process of photodegradation (which takes hundreds of years), while new rubbish arrives everyday from all directions.
Sea captain and ocean researcher Charles Moore made the marine garbage problem famous after publishing several articles describing his Pacific Gyre crossing, “As I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have been a pristine ocean, I was confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of plastic. It seemed unbelievable, but I never found a clear spot. In the week it took to cross the subtropical high, no matter what time of day I looked, plastic debris was floating everywhere: bottles, bottle caps, wrappers, fragments.”
Concerned for the health of the ocean, Moore helped create the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF) to investigate the floating waste and how it affects the environment (www.algalita.org). Algalita is a Long Beach, California-based independent environmental organization that has made seven trips into the gyre to study the plastic trash accumulation in the last fourteen years. The facts on this page regarding plastic in the gyre are attributed to the public documents published by Algalita researchers. Algalita analyzes water samples from the middle of the North Pacific Central Gyre to calculate how much plastic is in the ocean. In a 1999 study, the North Pacific Central Gyre was found to contain six pounds of plastic for each pound of surface zooplankton, an essential building block for marine ecosystem food chains. This means that animals that feed on surface zooplankton are six times more likely to find plastic than actual food when they are looking for dinner.
Many marine birds and sea animals mistakenly eat plastic. Because of its high molecular weight and the nature of its chemical bonds, there is no animal in nature that can digest plastic. Plastic offers no nutrients. It can make an animal feel full even though they have not actually consumed food. Ingested plastics can prevent migration and reproduction in sea birds. In turtles, plastic stuck in the intestines can make them float, unable to dive down to find food. Ingested plastic can cause blockages in the digestive tract and can eventually lead to starvation and death. Algalita has found that the longer plastic is in the ocean, the fewer pieces of red, brown and tan plastic are found. They have determined that animals mistake these colors of plastic particles for krill. Nurdles, the raw plastic pellets made by plastic manufacturers, are mistaken for fish eggs.
The toxic chemicals in plastics can also make animals sick. Sea bird chicks are especially vulnerable as they receive high levels of concentrated pollution from the yolk sac and after hatching from the food brought to them by their parents. When scientists studied the carcasses of Layson Albatross chicks, they found that ninety percent contained plastic.
Not all marine plastic floats on the surface. About half of the plastics in the ocean are negatively buoyant. Since plastic needs the sun to photodegrade, sunken pieces will often remain whole. Discarded nets, traps and lines continue to “ghost fish” (catch sea life without a fisherman), entangling fish and mammals for years. An estimated 100,000 marine mammal deaths are caused this way in the North Pacific every year.
Filter feeders, like jellies and salps, who are on the low end of the food chain, consume very small fragments of plastic. Fifty species of fish and many turtles eat these filter feeders regularly. The plastic from the filter feeders moves up the food chain and so do the organic chemicals and environmental pollutants that are associated with them. Some of these chemicals are called “endocrine disruptors” and can be released when the plastics are ingested. The endocrine system produces hormones in humans and animals. Hormone disruption in humans can cause enlarged prostates, cancer, early puberty in young girls, even mental retardation and a propensity for violence.
Where is all this marine garbage coming from? Algalita estimates that activities at sea account for about 20% of the plastic in the ocean, it is called flotsam if it was lost overboard and jetsam if it was thrown overboard. Ships crossing North Pacific from Asia to North America often encounter storms in which they can lose entire containers filled with plastic products like shoes or bags. The other 80% of plastic in the ocean comes from activities on land. The entire watershed is involved, from people leaving their trash on the beach to plastic manufacturers far upstream allowing their waste to end up in waterways. Because of the clear need to prevent more plastic from ending up in the ocean and the danger of unfinished raw plastic materials, Algalita has concentrated its efforts on public education and the implementation of plastics industry housekeeping standards.
Every day more plastic finds its way into the North Pacific Gyre. Since the studies done in the 1990’s the quantity of plastic has tripled from maximum densities of 320,000 particles per square kilometer to 1 million particles per square kilometer. If a large-scale ocean restoration project does not begin, plastic will continue to accumulate on beaches and in oceanic gyres forever. The Environmental Cleanup Coalition has begun its large scale Gyre Cleanup Project to tackle this growing problem and resuscitate a marine environment that is suffocating on human trash. Because oceans naturally swirl into gyres, much of the trash that we allow into the ocean ends up in a centralized location. Instead of being evenly dispersed, we are seeing “trash vortexes”. Although Gyres are extremely large, the density of trash that collects there is hard to ignore. We know where to find the heart of our marine trash problem. We know where to begin a cleanup.