The plastic continent by Manèle and Pauline
- Esmeralda Monthly
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Located in the Pacific Ocean at the north , the continent plastic is called “ the seventh continent “
It is an enormous mass of plastic which is in the ocean .
It kills a lot of tortoises , a lot of sea birds and a lot of other endangered species .
The size of the plastic continent is enormous : it is 1,6 million kilometers , so 3 times that of France !
It was discovered by Charles Moore in 1997 .
A vortex of rubbish of the Pacific north matches at the enormous mass rubbish place in ocean Pacific between Hawaï and California .
It is one of the five zones of rubbish that you can find in this ocean. It forms what you call the seventh continent .
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