海洋占地球总面积的百分之七十左右,任何陆地上产生的垃圾如果没有好好处理,最后都很容易流落到海中,并随着洋流在全球五大洋中四处“流窜”。有些甚至会随着海浪被冲上世界各地的海岸,像日本“三一一”大地震中被海啸(xiao)卷入海中的物品,在两年后被北太平洋环流送到美国西海岸,就是典型的例子。 Seventy per cent of the Earth’s oceans account for about 70 per cent of the Earth’s total area, and any land-based rubbish can easily end up in the sea if it is not handled well and “flow” around the world’s oceans as ocean currents flow. Some of them even washed up on the coasts of the world with waves. Items like the ones caught in the tsunami by the tsunami in the “31 January” earthquake in Japan were circulated by the North Pacific to the west coast of the United States two years later. Is a typical example.