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UNIT 5-FUTURE.

UNIT 5-FUTURE. CREE MORO Magnie In 1997, Charles Moore, an American sailor and environmental expert, was salling across the Pacific Ocean on the way home from a boat race. During his voyage, Moore saw something that he would never forget. AM In the week it took to cross the area, no matter 5 where he looked) there was plastic waste floating everywhere, Moore had discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of floating plastic rubbish in the middle of the ocean that is approximately twice the size of Australia! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch around 16 milion square kilomets. IE Milicns of ton of 10 plastic have collected there. Things Ike plastic containers, baos, toothbrushes and bottles float on top of the water, and under the surface there are milions of tiny pieces of clear plastic. For years, no one knew about this enormous island of floating plastic in the Pacific Ocean because ships rarely travel there, What is 15 more, most of the plastic pieces are so litle that you can't see them in satelite photographs, At first, scientists thought the Great Pacific Garbage Path was the only place where plastic had colected, E How did all this plastic get into the sea? Experts say a lot of the plastic that is thrown out finds its way to rivers and eventually False Friends O THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH 20 reaches the ocean. Plastic doesn't weigh much, so it loats along until ítends up in areas where the water does not move a lot, and there lt stays. This plastic has already caused a lot of damage. Thousands of sea animal have died after eating bags or other plasticrubbis, [E] we 2 are in danger too. In addition to plastic, many other things pollute the oceans, indluding some very harmful chemical. Recently scientists have discovered that the chemicals stick to the miniature pieces of plastic. The pieces of plastic end up being eaten by fish, so its possible the chemicals wil find their way to our dinner plates! 30 How are we going to solve this problem? Can we clean up all the platicinthe oceans? KE] "ts th biggest misunderstanding people have,” he says. People don't understand how much plastic there is and how tiny the pleces are. They are so small that they can't be collected. Recycling plastic and producing less wil help, However, 35 while govermments and environmental experts are figuring out ways to do this, the oceans' garbage patches are growing all the time. We use about when we aren't sure of the exact size or amount of somethina. See missina sentence B. collect eventual