3.5 Million Tons of Plastic Floating in the Pacific 350萬噸的塑料漂浮在太平洋
David Gutierrez朱古鐵雷斯 | A mass of plastic debris twice the size of Texas is still growing in the Pacific Ocean, fueled primarily by plastic trash generated on the land. |大量的塑料碎片大小的兩倍得克薩斯州仍然是日益增長的在太平洋，燃料主要是由塑料垃圾所產生的土地。 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch consists of 3.5 million tons of trash, 80 percent of it plastic, floating in a rarely-traveled portion of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and San Francisco.偉大的太平洋垃圾修補程序構成的350萬噸的垃圾，百分之八十的，它的塑料，漂浮在罕見的出行部分太平洋之間的夏威夷和舊金山。
“With the winds blowing in and the currents in the gyre going circular, it’s the perfect environment for trapping,” said Marcus Eriksen, director of research and education at the Algalita Marine Research Foundation in Long Beach, Calif. “There’s nothing we can do about it now, except do no more harm.” “隨著吹來的風和海流，在gyre去通知，它的完美的環境，捕捉，說： ”馬庫斯埃里克森主任，研究和教育在algalita海洋研究基金會在長灘，加利福尼亞州“的沒有什麼我們可以做的約，現在，除了沒有更多的傷害“ 。
According to Chris Parry, public education program manager for the California Coastal Commission in據克里斯帕里，公眾教育計劃經理加州海岸委員會在 San Francisco舊金山 , the garbage patch has been growing tenfold every decade since the 1950s. ，垃圾補丁軟件已經被越來越多十倍，每一個十年， 20世紀50年代以來。 This corresponds with an equivalent increase in worldwide ocean debris.這相當於具有同等增加，在世界各地的海洋碎片。
The debris is highly dangerous to ocean life.碎片是非常危險的海洋生活。 Birds and marine animals may injure themselves by swallowing hard, indigestible shards of plastic.鳥類和海洋動物可能會傷害自己，吞嚥困難， indigestible shards塑料。 Animals like sea turtles, which mistake plastic bags for jellyfish, may also eat plastic that is less immediately harmful but just as fatal in the long term.動物，如海龜，其中的錯誤膠袋為海蜇，也可以吃塑料是少立即有害，但正如在致命的長遠目標。
“These animals die because the plastic eventually fills their stomachs,” said Warner Chabot, vice president of the Ocean Conservancy. “這些動物死亡，因為塑膠，最終填補了他們的肚子，說： ”華納查博特，副院長，海洋建設。 “It doesn’t pass, and they literally starve to death.” “它不通過，他們從字面上餓死” 。
Plastic, which is synthesized from petroleum, can persist for decades before beginning to degrade, making it nearly impossible to get rid of once it is produced.塑料，這是合成石油，可堅持了幾十年前開始降解，使得幾乎不可能擺脫，一旦它產生的。
Parry and Chabot agree that the best way to keep the Great Pacific Garbage Patch from growing is to reduce production of plastic waste and use fewer plastic products at the consumer level as well.帕里和查博特一致認為，最好的方法，讓偉大的太平洋垃圾修補程序，從日益增長的，是要減少生產的塑膠廢料和使用較少的塑膠製品在消費者層面以及。
“What we can do is ban plastic fast food packaging,” Chabot said, “or require the substitution of biodegradable materials, increase recycling programs and improve enforcement of litter laws.” “我們能做的是禁止塑料快餐包裝， ”查博特說： “或需要替代生物可降解材料，增加回收項目和改善執法亂拋垃圾的法律” 。
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