The Voyage of the Ocean Trash with Jenni Brandon

Tumble Science Podcast for Kids

Tumble Media

Education For Kids, Kids & Family

4.3 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a vast, swirling soup of trash, twice the size of Texas. Can we ever clean it up? That’s what 8 year old Ila wants to know. She lives in Hawaii and likes to pick up trash whenever she goes to the beach. She lives closer to the garbage patch than most of us. We talk to Jenni Brandon, a researcher who has been to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a place where few people will visit, but where we all have an impact. She tells us how surreal it is to sail through trash, why the garbage patch exists, and what scientists are doing about it. To find out more, visit tumblepodcast.com Marine debris photo courtesy of Jenni Brandon.

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0:00.0	Have you ever heard of the great Pacific garbage patch?
0:03.2	Is that like a eye patch that's worn by a pirate in the Pacific that he found in the garbage?
0:10.7	Like, I'm aty.
0:13.9	I found this eye patch in the garbage.
0:16.5	I don't know why somebody would throw it away.
0:19.9	It is a perfectly good eye patch.
0:22.5	No, that would be much better than what it actually is.
0:26.6	It is a swirling soup of trash in the ocean that spread over an area twice the size of Texas.
0:34.6	Oh no, matey.
0:36.6	It is hard to be a pirate in trash.
0:39.5	Oh, is that my treasure?
0:42.5	No, it is just a sock.
0:51.3	I'm Lindsay.
0:52.3	And I'm Marshall.
0:53.3	Welcome to Tumble, the show where we explore stories of science discoveries.
0:56.7	Today we're talking about the great Pacific garbage patch.
1:00.2	We'll explore how the trash we throw away ends up in the ocean and how scientists are studying
1:04.6	what happens to it.
1:06.4	And is it possible to clean it all up?
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1:23.4	If you're so inspired by me and Lindsay that you want to make a podcast of your own, Spotify
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