This slideshare presentation is about the Pacific Garbage Patch. Forming more than fifty years ago, the Pacific Garbage Patch's mass has collected approximately one million pounds of garbage and plastic causing it to be almost double the size of Texas. The garbage and plastic that make up this large mass endanger any sea life that may inhabit it.

1. The Pacific Garbage Patch AB0847058

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4. Plastic to Garbage Ratio

6. Pacific Garbage Patch compared to Texas www.locallender.info http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trashing-Oceans-Plastic4nov02.GIF

7. Where the Garbage comes from

9. Chain Effect http://i.pbase.com/u49/rtwo/large/ 40835063.AcquariumII.jpg http://www.littlecatzhome.net/chongt er/Articles/life/Plastic/01.jpg http://www.helixcharter.net/department_sites/soc ialscience/honors_geo/student%20w ork/Period%203%20websites/3m oldewatpol/images/plastic%20ocean%20trash.jpg Floating garbage is consumed by jelly fish and other organisms, which in turn is consumed by the fish that we eat. http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://bp2.blogger.com/_m8XL235t5cM/R44JcafhPqI/AAAAAAAAAZo/kJ49xKS2Jag/s320/Human%2BBody%2BOutline.jpg&imgrefurl=http://darthbode.blogspot.com/2008/01/true.html&h=320&w=177&sz=8&hl=en&start=17&um=1&usg=__Vyp598gI51Ep6pWA8o66mIZz68Q=&tbnid=jD3frhq-uMTw6M:&tbnh=118&tbnw=65&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhuman%2Bbody%2Boutline%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG