Great Pacific garbage patch: Difference between revisions

In 2010, a conference at the [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] (IEEE) argued that whilst the patch posed a threat to the living conditions of mankind, it was controllable.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yin |first=Huang |last2=Cheng |first2=Chang |date=2010 |title=Monitoring Methods Study on the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch |journal=IEEE 2010 International Conference on Management and Service Science |doi=10.1109/icmss.2010.5577101}}</ref> In a conference at the IEEE in the following year, it was argued that the patch disrupts the balance of the original marine ecosystem and provides microorganisms with new biological conditions, leading to the development of a new ecosystem.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yu |first=Xinxin |date=August 2011 |title=The Solution to the "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch" |journal=IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering |location=Dalian, China |volume=14}}</ref>