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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris located in the North Pacific Ocean discovered in 1997 by a boat captain sailing from Hawaii to California. Plastic does not biodegrade but instead breaks down into microplastics over hundreds of years, harming ocean life that mistakes plastic for food or becomes entangled in discarded fishing nets and other debris. Recycling plastic bottles and other waste can help reduce the amount of plastic pollution entering the oceans, but a global effort is needed to address this growing environmental problem.

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris located in the North Pacific Ocean discovered in 1997 by a boat captain sailing from Hawaii to California. Plastic does not biodegrade but instead breaks down into microplastics over hundreds of years, harming ocean life that mistakes plastic for food or becomes entangled in discarded fishing nets and other debris. Recycling plastic bottles and other waste can help reduce the amount of plastic pollution entering the oceans, but a global effort is needed to address this growing environmental problem.

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AUDIO

VIDEO
1. Do you know what this is?

2. This is the Great Pacific Garbage


Patch,
3. a collection of marine debris located in
the North Pacific Ocean.
4. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was
discovered by a boat racing captain in 1997
who was sailing from Hawaii to California
after competing in a yachting race.
5. Sounds like a fun trip, until you get to
the part where his boat is wading through
mounds of floating plastic
6. Do you know how long it takes plastic
to break down?
7. The answer, is 700 years.
8. So if plastic was introduced to the
public by Alexander Parks in London of 1862,
that plastic still hasnt biodegraded.
9. And wont. For 547 years.
10. The plastic will just break down into
tinier pieces called micro plastic. This
happens through photodegradation, which is
when the sun breaks down its chemical
formula.
11. All of the cute and adorable sea
creatures that live in the ocean
12. are in danger because of our reckless
behavior.
13. For instance, sea turtles often mistake
plastic bags for jellyfish, their favorite food.

14. Plastic kills 1,000,000 sea creatures a


year.

1. A close up of the GPGP


2. slowly backs up
3. shows real view normal view of the
GPGP
4. far away shot of a map
5. moving arrows pointing where it is
(north pacific ocean)
6. sad face
7. map, little boat with a captain
8. boat m oves over the map: sailing
from Hawaii to California and hovering over
GPGP
9. Little marks showing the route
10. happy person w/boat sailing in the
beautiful sun
11. scary lightning doom of death
12. boat is stuck in trash w/sad person
13. pictures of various plastic in the
background, and uncle sam pointing at the
audience
14. numbers zooming around the page
(fast)
15. then all numbers vanish off screen and
the number 700 is the only one left standing.
16. Alexander Parks
17. Light bulb over his head
18. Than equal sign to plastic bag
19. Black and white pictures of London
20. 1862 spelled in plastic
21. 547 years repeating over and over
(growing bigger every time)
22. original big sized plastic breaking
down into tiny pieces
23. sun
24. plastics chemical formula
25. hand scooping up microplastic (so
people can understand how small it is)
26. picture of micro plastic in the ocean
27. pictures of cute sea creatures
swimming
28. san creatures in the garbage patch/
with tons of trash
29. X over all the sea creatures
30. peanuts comic saying, oh, good grief
31. plastic bags in the ocean
32. jelly fish compared to plastic bags
You see the difference. A turtle does not.
33. sea turtle eating plastic bag

15. Ariel and Flounder would not be


happy with us.
16. This happened because of human
involvement, and our waste is causing a lot of
problems for the Earth.

34. sea turtles dead because of plastic bags


35. many pictures of sea creatures all tiled
on the screen, getting smaller as more pictures
fill the screen
36. ariel and flounder disappointed

17. The majority of debris that doesnt


come from land based activities comes from
fishing nets.
18. There are an estimated 1,410,000,000
pounds of fishing nets in the ocean.

37. cartoon of earth being sick


38. peanuts comic saying, were doomed
linus, were doomed
39. trash
40. land based trash pictures
(roadside/landfills/black trash bin)
41. fishing nets in the ocean
42. fishing nets on the scale
43. scale rapidly increases until it reaches
1,410,000,000 lb
44. scale breaks (dead face instead)
45. everyone is responsible

19. And everyone is responsible! If we


share the world then we need to share the
burden.
20. SARCASM.,..So maybe its not a
specific countries fault.

46. map with different countries labeled


21. Maybe we should just all forget the
ocean even exists!
22. So, how can we slow down the process
of our impending doom?
23. RECYCLE!!!
24. Every hour, 250,000 plastic bottles are
being dumped into the ocean, when they could
be recycled.
25. Theres this amazing thing called
Google that will teach you all you need to
know about recycling. If youre one of the
people who desperately needs to learn how,
aka everyone on the planet, make this the first
thing on your To-Do list

26. More ecosystems are going to feel the


repercussions of our actions if we dont learn
to recycle. So lets delay the growth of the
Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and find a
lasting solution.

47. fisherman comics


48. old fisherman to give the feeling that
theyre clueless
49. fisherman dumping fishing nets into
the ocean
50. sunset ocean picture
51. sign in front of it saying does not
exist
52. beach with no water
53. world with everyone holding hands
with trash in the ocean
54. peanuts comic saying, do you ever
have the feeling of impending doom.
55. RECYCLE in giant font with a
rainbow background spinning
56. pile of bottles being dumped into the
ocean with numbers rising per hour
57. GOOGLE
58. to-do list which says how to recycle on
the top
59. bored people in a class
60. big red X
61. excited people in a class (this is the
attitude you need)
62. people recycling
63. happy faces appearing all around them
64. picture saying recycle it begins with
you and me
65. pictures of the great pacific garbage

patch
66. pictures of animals that need help
67. picture of unhealthy earth slowly
becoming healthy
68. peanuts comicearth healing

Statistics Cited
1. History of Plastic. The Plastic Industry Trade Association. 6 March 2015.
<http://www.plasticsindustry.org/AboutPlastics/content.cfm?ItemNumber=670>
2. Recycling Statistics and Facts. Infolinks. 6 March 2015. <http://www.all-recyclingfacts.com/recycling-statistics.html>
3. Turgeon, Andrew. Great Pacific Garbage Patch. National Geograhic. 6 March 2015.
<http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/?
ar_a=1>

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