Searching for plane, finding trash
Crews searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight are not finding the plane, but are finding extensive pollution and trash in the world's oceans.
It's not every day that crews scour vast stretches of ocean in search of something lost. As weeks of searching for debris from missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 yields little information about what happened during the flight, the mission has shown extreme pollution in the world's oceans.
The plane has not been sighted although plenty of discarded equipment, cargo containers and other man-made trash has been found floating in the sea and affecting the marine life.
According to National Geographic, ocean trash migrates to areas that become garbage dumps dictated by currents. Some patches, like floating landfills, are as large as entire countries. A patch discovered last year between Hawaii and California was the size of Texas.
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