It covers 40% of our oceans! Anything we can do to get rid of it? Scooping it up seems quite a big job!
The oceans are big enough to look after themselves. Does washing my paint brush in the sink really make that much of a difference ?
Why is she yelling!!!!!!!!!!
Asians are by far the worst for chucking stuff in the ocean.. They are uneducated in regards to the damage it does, out of sight.. out of mind..
Seen it heaps in Indo..
twice the size of texas.....firstly if it was that big I'm sure you could see it on google earth or at least see a picture of it and also, 40% of the oceans is almost the size of all the land on earth......
It's made of little tiny bits floating on and far below the surface, just scooping them up is not really possible.
The only hope is for the world to stop using plastic and eventually it will all sink to the bottom and get covered in sediment but of course that's not going to happen.
Any little plastic bit that falls on the ground will eventually end up in the ocean.
If they could just start using the plastic made from corn that biodegrades rapidly this problem could be solved.
I'll have them, in a few years they'll be solid enough to build resorts on them....hmmm $$$$$
a couple of years ago we were taking off from Lima Airport and it was hard not to notice that the big d10 dozers were pushing the garbage straight into the south pacific.
they had a large spit of rubbish about 500m out to sea,and that was far enough to catch the current travelling to the north andwest.right over the horizon,a thick line of garbage
if you drift on that current your next landfall is queensland.
In 10,000 years there will be a layer of plastic in the sediment. We will be known as "The Plastic People"
I have no idea if thats right but the above is what was quoted. Just wanted to correct Mobis coment
Don't want to minimise this disaster, but as the WP article states (with refs), as well as my kid's school research on this , the size of this thing is not as big as Texas. At least not the visible part that looks like a mountain of garbage.
The invisible (tiny bits) parts are 100% all over though.
Last time I accompanied the missus at a resort for a week, I got bored by day 1 and there was no decent windsurfing.
I resorted to getting garbage bags from the hotel and running up and down the coastline and filling the bags with plastic litter. Did that all week, at least it was exercise. Didn't make a dent of course.
Shame on litterers of all shapes and size and nationalities.
, the size of this thing is not as big as Texas. At least not the visible part that looks like a mountain of garbage.
, the size of this thing is not as big as Texas. At least not the visible part that looks like a mountain of garbage.
