{"id":3951,"date":"2019-05-20T15:39:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2019-05-20T15:39:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:39:28","slug":"isla-de-basura-en-el-pacifico-norte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=3951","title":{"rendered":"Isla de basura en el Pac\u00edfico norte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sabido es que las corrientes marinas y los vientos se deben a los cambios o gradientes de temperaturas pero fundamentalmente la aceleraci\u00f3n de Coriolis que le imprimen el sentido de giro, en el hemisferio norte el giro es horario y en el sur antihorario. As\u00ed gracias a ese movimiento grandes masas de desechos en los mares del mundo se est\u00e1n agrupando en islas o continentes de basura. La mas importante es la que se encuentra en el pacifico norte entre Hawai y California.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"section-title-block section-title-block--secondary section-title-block--large\">\n<div class=\"section-title-block__inner\">\n<p><strong>Plastic accumulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content content--asymmetrical block block--small\">\n<p>It is estimated that 1.15 to 2.41 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean each year from rivers. More than half of this plastic is less dense than the water, meaning that it will not sink once it encounters the sea.<a id=\"ref-2\" class=\"footnote\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoceancleanup.com\/great-pacific-garbage-patch.html#footnote-2\" data-id=\"2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"side-quote side-quote--right\">\n<div class=\"side-quote__content\"><\/div>\n<p>The stronger, more buoyant plastics show resiliency in the marine environment, allowing them to be transported over extended distances. They persist at the sea surface as they make their way offshore, transported by converging currents and finally accumulating in the patch.<\/aside>\n<p>Once these plastics enter the gyre, they are unlikely to leave the area until they degrade into smaller microplastics under the effects of sun, waves and marine life. As more and more plastics are discarded into the environment, microplastic concentration in the\u00a0<span class=\"word-definition\"><span class=\"word-definition__word\" data-handler=\"wordDefinition\" data-definition=\"The term was coined by Charles J. Moore, returning home through the North Pacific Gyre after competing in the Transpac sailing race in 1997.\">Great Pacific Garbage Patch\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>will only continue to increase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoceancleanup.com\/great-pacific-garbage-patch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leer m\u00e1s &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuente:<\/strong>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoceancleanup.com\/great-pacific-garbage-patch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.theoceancleanup.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabido es que las corrientes marinas y los vientos se deben a los cambios o gradientes de temperaturas pero fundamentalmente la aceleraci\u00f3n de Coriolis que&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}