Questão 37 - UEFS Caderno 1 2011/2

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Japanese garbage island moves towards US

 

 

    Following the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami disasters, a massive amount of rubbish has washed into the

Pacific Ocean. The US Navy is watching the garbage with interest as it floats towards Hawaii and the west coast of the

United States.

Entire houses, bodies, car parts, tractors and many upturned boats have amassed off the east coast of Japan on an

5    epic scale. The floating objects have been declared a maritime danger by the American Navy, which warned they could

pierce the body of a boat, or destroy engines in the Pacific’s shipping lanes. The island of debris of most concern, 110

kilometers long, is being closely monitored by the US Navy’s seventh fleet, as experts predict it could hit Hawaii’s shores

in two years and the American west coast a year later. Hawaiian scientists put it honestly. They warned that a vast mass

that originated in a few moments of destruction in Japan, could eventually foul beaches and reefs off the Eastern North

10 Pacific and kill marine life. The American Navy’s working with civilian construction companies from the earthquake-hit

country, as huge cranes and boats are sent to clear the seas of this vast bobbing mass of wreckage of household furniture,

wood, tires, fishing equipment and other garbage, sweeping eastwards.

LOBEL, Mark. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 4 jun. 2010. 

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