Listening 2

The world's biggest collection of garbage is in the middle of the pacific ocean .In the pacific ocean there is an area were ocean currents move in a large circle , and in this movement the currents collects the garbage .People called it the great pacific garbage patch .90 percent of plastic is found in the ocean , 80% of garbage come's from the land .The garbage floats from rivers and sea's into the ocean .A sailer discovered the patches and that he was travelling through water covered with garbage .Consequently,he calculated the amount of garbage ,and it was more than 3 million tons of plastic floating .Also,he calculated the amount of garbage in the eastern and western patches and its an area of Africa .All of this garbage is hurting the environment ,and this is dangerous for all marine life .Fishes and sea birds thinks that small pieces of plastic is food so they eat it .scientist found in the dead fishes stomach plastic .Plastic killed many fishes and sea birds ,and they say that cleaning the environment is impossible .The only thing that will help is taking a better control of waste on land .We should reduce the amount of plastic used and produced .