Scientists have found a large accumulation of plastic waste in the North Atlantic Ocean. According to them, this area of the Atlantic is comparable with the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch. 

Open dumps in the Atlantic Ocean was the result of years of research, conducted by the Sea Education Association (SEA). 

Head of the study Kara Lavender Law (Dr Lavender Law) spoke about his results at a conference in the U.S. city of Portland. 

According Larvender Law, her research team made more than 6 thousand outlets in the sea the Caribbean islands and the northern Atlantic. During the research vessel dragged the network, which reach debris and marine organisms. 

More than half the cases, the networks turned out plastic waste. Most caught pieces of plastic were very small, not larger than 1 cm in diameter. Especially Haul debris was observed in the northern Atlantic. 

"We found a region fairly far north in the Atlantic Ocean where this debris appears to be concentrated and remains over long periods of time" - told Kara Lavender Law in an interview with BBC. - "More than 80% of the plastic pieces we collected in the tows were found between 22 and 38 degrees north. So we have a latitude for [where this] rubbish seems to accumulate" 

According to a study SEA, the maximum density of debris in the North Atlantic is 200 thousand pieces of plastic per square kilometer, which is comparable to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

A researcher said that while you can not make definitive conclusions about the impact of plastic debris on the ocean environment. "But we know that many marine organisms are consuming these plastics and we know this has a bad effect on seabirds in particular,"  - she told BBC News.

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk