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Originally Posted by Johnny Electriglide
The twice the size of Texas gyre between California and Hawaii is the worst. Waste is a function of population, and habits. California has converted to mostly 66% more per capita trash producing people (Mexicans, from 1995 research) from invasion and over-immigration in the past 25 years, and this is where most of the trash in that gyre comes from, by wind.
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Unless I am misreading this statement, it appears you are suggesting that the "trash vortex" in the Pacific has been caused (or worsened) by Mexican immigrants in California. That idea seems improbable and illogical, since the Pacific coastline is shared by both the Northern part of California (which is currently part of the USA) and the Southern part of California (which is still part of Mexico).
So, are you seriously suggesting that there is something about the immigration process that causes them to generate more plastic wastes upon the crossing of an artificial boundary line? Or is it that they are simply more conscientious about waste disposal practices when in Mexico?
If you are seriously alleging that the "trash vortex" is caused by Mexicans along the US Pacific coast (and not along the Mexico Pacific coast), you will need to explain why (and how) this happens exactly. Is there an underwater wall that divides the northern and southern coastal environment? That would be the only rational explanation for how plastic waste from Mexico does not enter the Pacific "trash vortex".
What about the rest of the US east coast or even the Canadian Pacific - does none of the garbage come from there, or is it also subject to the bizarre form of oceanographic currents and circulation patterns that divide the Mexican-Californian nearshore waters from the US-Californian nearshore waters? Such a phenomenon would have far reaching consequences beyond the dispersal and distribution plastic trash in the marine ecosystem (e.g., for biological population dynamics...).