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Mappi.net : Maps of continents : The 7th Continent
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The
7th Continent term is the name given to the new continent of marine
waste created by humans. The
waste is made up to 89% plastic, an estimated 10% of plastic in the
world end in the oceans. The
islands of waste is very hard to locate by satellite because they
consist of very small pieces of plastic mobile and predominantly deep.That's
why it's a little known phenomenon to date.
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The
seventh continent observed by Greenpeace.
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Natural
oceanic gyre.
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First
observation of waste in the 80's by NOAA.
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The
latest observations of the Pacific islands of waste.
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Concentration
of waste in the islands per unit per square kilometer, the average
yellow islands, the peaks in red and blue the rest of the oceans.
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Schematic
of a cross section of an island waste.
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The
seventh continent out of commercial areas in light blue.
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Depth
of waste with the decomposition time of a plastic bag and a plastic
bottle.
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Probability
of islands from other areas of waste in light of current knowledge.
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A
big thank you to the team of "Dessous des cartes" and Arte television,
virtually the only media to relay this kind of problem:
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