Garbage Patches. What are they?

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  Did you ever think where does our thrown away waste actually end up?


Whatever waste we throw on the roads through wind or rain water enters the drainage system. And through sewer pipes mixes with waterways. All this trash reaches the ocean. Now this waste because of water current and wind gets collected in one place.

 Which is then called a garbage patch.


Five of the oceans already have these garbage patches: South Pacific,South Atlantic,North Atlantic,Indian,and North Pacific.the biggest one among these is the NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN.This is called the great pacific garbage patch.Right now, this garbage patch size is more than 6 lakh square miles.

This is 3 times that of France.This is just the size of one garbage patch. Just imagine the other garbage patches.


Even if YOu don’t throw waste on roads rather put it in dustbins.it is collected from your house and then reaches to the open dumps and bin.the local authorities then collect it in garbage trucks and dump it in the landfills.in an year around 227 million tonnes of solid waste gets generated.from this almost 80% of the waste reaches to the landfills because of this india will need bigger areas of landfills in the coming years.



Landfills cause many problems like:-

  • Air pollution

                        Because of a lot of waste in landfills a lot of methane gas is produced. Which is stronger than carbon dioxide.

 This is the reason fires  are caused in land pollution through which air pollution gets increases 

 

  • Soil Pollution:- The amount of land which gets covered because of this waste gets contaminated.    


  • Harms Natural Life:- In a landfill there are different types of wastes like organic waste,solid waste,e-waste and they get mixed. And when birds and animals come to consume food they unknowingly consume solid and e-waste also.because of these a lot of animals suffer. 

Solution 

Reduce

Reuse

                      Recycle

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