Pacific Trash Island Size
Estimates of size range from 700000 square kilometres about the size of Texas to 10000000 square kilometres about the size of Europe to more than 15000000 square kilometres about twice the size of the United States. According to a three-year study published in Scientific Reports Friday the mass known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is about 16 million square kilometers in size. Duner S Blog Apr 13 Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now The Size Of Alaska There Is No Island of Trash in the Pacific. Pacific trash island size . The patch covers a territory the size of three Frances or 16 million square kilometers. For NOAA a national science agency separating science from science fiction about the Pacific garbage patch and other garbage. Where does this trash come from. A floating island of trash dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch GPGP now stretches 600000 square miles. Eriksen et al 2014. Some research studies say that there are 200000 bits of trash per square kilometer.