The culprit makes it difficult to find aircraft MH370

Floating trash in the Indian Ocean circulation is making it difficult for Malaysia Airlines' efforts to track down missing MH370 aircraft, as search teams mistakenly identify them with aircraft fragments . So, what are ocean currents and why do they contain so much garbage?

Any circulating water flow or air flow can be considered a circulation line . However, this term is often used to refer to an ocean whirlpool .

Map of 5 major ocean circulation lines on Earth.(Photo: NOAA)

There are 5 major ocean circulation currents on Earth. In addition to the Indian Ocean circulation around Madagascar and Western Australia, our planet also has four other major circulation lines in the North and South Atlantic Ocean as well as in the North and South Pacific.

The ocean circulation flows formed by the wind, atmospheric pressure and rotation of the Earth. When the Earth rotates around its axis, a physical force is called the Coriolis effect, which causes the flow of currents to rotate in different directions, depending on their position. The North Atlantic and North Pacific currents rotate clockwise, while the Indian Ocean, South Atlantic and South Pacific circulation flows in the opposite direction.

Circulation flows keep large amounts of waste in circulation.(Photo: NOAA)

All 5 circulation lines confine large amounts of waste during circulation, because debris never wash ashore. Plastic flakes floating near the surface make up the bulk of this waste, along with larger objects such as foam blocks or fishing gear.

Garbage can be extremely dangerous, even fatal for sea creatures that swallow them randomly or by mistake as food. The flow of waste storage in the ocean is also where bacteria and chemical pollution are tolerated.