Garbage island is twice as large as Vietnam's land area about to dock

The huge waste-sized island of Texas is on its way to land in the US, threatening to cause catastrophe for human and marine life.

US authorities warn, one million tons of garbage is floating in the waters between the Hawaiian Islands and the state of California. This is one of the horrifying consequences of the earthquake accompanied by tsunami hit Japan in 2011.

The 'toxic monster' occupies the US equivalent of the Texas state (678,907km ² ), twice the size of Vietnam's land (331,698km ² according to wikipedia data).

Junk Japanese tsunami on the way to America.(Photo: Daily Mail)

The focal point of the trash island is 2,700km from the US coast. If the garbage continues to merge, it will form a floating island larger than the size of America. Theoretically, the garbage island into North America could reach 5 million tons.

The trash island component includes boats, houses, electronic devices to home appliances. They were pulled away from Japanese territory by the tsunami after the double disaster in March 2011. Although closely monitoring the path of the garbage island, the US still could not predict exactly where it landed, although they were located very close to the US coast.

In fact, light garbage such as buoy and gallon began to arrive in North America at the end of last year. Previously, a ball was found, a Harley in a box or even a rusted ship . drifted to the North American coast.

Scientists warn, tsunami garbage will destroy the marine environment, harming wild animals and plants in the areas they sweep. Corals are covered with plastic, dead fish are caught by drift nets following garbage islands, birds die from eating plastic . are the harms that these huge garbage islands are causing.

The Japanese Ministry of Environment estimates that about 5 million tons of garbage are swept away by the tsunami into the ocean in a double disaster. However, only 30% of them are capable of floating in the vast Pacific Ocean. The rest had sunk to the bottom of the sea shortly after being pulled from the mainland.