What’s the « 7th Plastic Continent ? »

It is described as a huge garbage  operating in the North Pacific Ocean, the size of a third of the United States or France six times. Formed immediately to  the image of a compact cluster of gigantic plastic bags, bottles, cans and other threads …
This pollution, invisible from space, is found in five large ocean basins in the North Pacific, but also in the South Pacific, the North and South Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. These areas are characterized by the effect of water currents meeting, influenced by the rotation of the Earth.

By : Marianne GETENET, Emma BACHÉ, Jade ALGARRA et Lucile MERLO