NASA Video Reveals How 35 Years of Trash Turned Into Ocean Garbage Patches | TakePart

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is the most well known, but there are five gigantic clumps of trash in the world’s oceans. Now, a visualization by NASA shows how all the litter people around world carelessly toss onto streets and sidewalks travels on ocean currents and settles into those five gross globs of drifting detritus. The journey a single-use plastic bottle of water takes as it floats on the waves can’t be tracked with a satellite, so NASA visualized how discarded rubbish moves with the next best thing: buoys.

NASA Video Reveals How 35 Years of Trash Turned Into Ocean Garbage Patches | TakePart