If you populate in Hawaii , California , British Columbia , Alaska or Baja California , here is some sorry news : According to computing machine models made by scientists at the International Pacific Research Center , University of Hawaii at Manoa , all the debris washed out by the Japan tsunami is follow your agency .
This is how the trash will spread through the Pacific and hit the West Coast of the United States , Canada and Mexico :
The model — develop by Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner using data from be adrift buoy that have been deploy over eld through the Pacific Ocean — demonstrate the unstoppable progress of the junk after the March 11 tsunami . The trash plume — formed by all sort of junk , from pieces of sign and automobiles to consumer electronics — is now spreading eastward from Japan taken by the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre .
March 2012 | The dust plume approaches the northward of Hawaii . harmonize to their pretense , pieces will start to make it to the beaches of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument .
March 2013 | Plume starts reach the rest of the Hawaiian island on their way to the West Coast .
March 2014 | The debris cloud will touch the West Coast , dumping shabu on California , British Columbia , Alaska and Baja California ’s beach .
March 2015 | By now , the plumage will be swimming its way into that shameful post called theNorth Pacific Garbage Patch , which more than a patch is a sea of floating Methedrine that , accord to the latest study by the US National Science Foundation , could be twice the size of Texas right now . There , according to Maximenko and Hafner , it will “ wander around and fracture into pocket-sized pieces . ”
March 2016 | Five year after the calamity , another wafture of “ strong and longer - lasting ” debris will reach Hawaii again .
Hopefully these findings — which were show at the 5th International Marine Debris Conference in Hawaii — will swear out the agency to align the effort to conquer and eliminate the tsunami trash along with the rest of that drivel ocean , just like they did before with the North Atlantic Patch . [ World.edu ]
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