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Isla de basura
The plastic continent, also known as garbage island, toxic island, large
garbage patch in the Pacific, large garbage area in the Pacific, swirl of
garbage from the Pacific, island of pollution and other similar names, is
a ocean area covered by marine debris in the center of the North
Pacific Ocean, located between the coordinates 135 ° to 155 ° W and
35 ° to 42 ° N2.
Plastics make up 99.9% of all waste in this part of the ocean. At least
46% of plastics are fishing nets and more than three quarters of
plastics were pieces of more than 5 cm, including hard plastics, plastic
sheets and plastic film. Although most of the waste was shredded into
fragments, they observed a small number of objects: containers,
bottles, lids, packaging tapes, ropes and fishing nets. In 50 objects the
production date could be read: one was from 1977, seven from the
80s, 17 from the 90s, 24 from the 2000s and one from 2010. Only one
type of garbage was thick enough to float and remained in place, such
as common plastics such as polyethylene and polypropylene, which
are used in packaging.