New Guinea Signs Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch Treaty (MOGPT)

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(Free-Press-Release.com) June 24, 2011 -- May 28, 2011
New Guinea Signs Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch Treaty (MOGPT)

The nation of New Guinea has signed the historic Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch Treaty (MOGPT). The First Citizen was quoted as saying "It is not only important to the people of New Guinea, but to the people of the entire world. This is important work that is not being done by more widely accepted nation-states. The various tribes, settlements, and villages that make up New Guinea do not make a great number of people, but we are people who have lived on this land for over 500 years living peacefully together, and we weep when we see garbage on our shores in foreign languages. This not a New Guinea problem. This is a global problem."

The Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch Treaty (MOGPT) is an updated and upgraded version of the original Great Pacific Garbage Patch Treaty to provide for recent scientific discoveries and new information. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, for which many leaders of nations in the past signed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Treaty, is a lot worse than originally thought.

According to Ariel Schwartz, "at least 1,700 miles of plastic trash is floating in what is commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Moreover, if you thought the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was a nightmare, things are actually a lot worse — the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has a twin. Scientists have found a matching patch in the Atlantic Ocean that stretches for thousands of square miles. The Great Atlantic Garbage Patch covers thousands of square miles between Bermuda and the Azores islands.

Scientists warn the phenomenon is likely to exist in still more places around the globe. Ocean currents determine the precise gathering of the junk, and the patch lies in the middle of a giant ocean gyre, or vortex in the sea. There are five major gyres in the world's oceans, and one group, 5 Gyres, is determined to search the remaining 4 for evidence of similar plastic island gatherings.

First Citizen Archangel was also quoted as saying "The larger Nations of the globe refuse to take responsibility for this mess, so New Guinea will. I'd plant a flag there if I could. Perhaps this historic document will embarrass larger and more wealthy nations, the ones who made this mess, to take some action."

Read more at http://mogpt.org/

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