Video: 20,000 Detergent Bottles Under the Sea

There is a dvd called "Our synthetic sea" that remarks that the "North Pacific Gyre" is as large as the north american continent. We're very close to the point of no return, WE NEED TO CLEAN IT UP!

Excuse the redundant posts, but the problem is that serious.

there is very little life in the open sea. i bet there is more life under the junk than there is net to it. things that have been in the sea long have life on it. look under it and see. i think its somewhere that small life can live. a larger life can feed. old shipwrecks have life when there is no life away from them.

That's all we need, another reality show. Why not outlaw the plastics and related crap to start the ball rolling?

That was a great video about a disturbing problem. I just wish that the video had retained its credibility throughout: it ended with a line "it may be that in our lifetimes we see that there are no more fish species in the ocean." Come on! That is exactly the sort of ridiculous hyperbole that opponents of sensible environmental policies point to when discrediting the movement. Please be more careful about what you say and publish, MoJo and environmentalists!

Don't get me started! I used to run a recycling facility, landfill and incinerator. Those deposits you made for the plastic containers, the bottlers keep them. Deposits are hugely profitable for the distributors of Coke and Bud, but for things like the Pacific Gyre, not so significant. Recycling plastic bags is a scam. I regularly got offers to pay me if I could take bales of plastic bags from some other locality and "make them go away quietly" - wink and nod. There would have been good money in it. Someone got paid, of that we all can be sure. The game is to convince the public that those plastic bags are ok, that they are getting recycled, and that the manufacturers and stores can keep doing what they are doing.

Recycling only works when there is a market. Markets work when there is demand. There is no market for slimy, partially degraded, mixed plastic scattered throughout a large portion of the Pacific Ocean. A plan for screening plastic junk out of the ocean expecting to find a market for the stuff is an invitation for scammers. And scamming the public is both big business and business as usual.

So, what is to be done. Make waste the manufacturer's responsibility. Our technical and business capacity is up to the task, but only if the incentives are right.

We, here in America, have this very prepubescent outlook on the world. As put to me by a friend in Germany, " America is still a baby country, you have very little history from which to draw conclusions, and, like a child, you have disdain for the idea of accepting advice."
In Europe, they are already facing, and having to deal with problems just surfacing here, because they have many thousands of years of concentratred pollution to deal with.
There really does exist a relatively simple fix to our nations problems, which would also put us in a position to more effectively contribute to the solution of pressing global challenges as well.
There is always much lamentation regarding taxes, and the bitter pill we must be willing to swallow is that it is only through taxes that our government is able to do things. The REAL problem is that Americans have slowly been convinced to accept lower and lower wages. If we were all paid more appropriate wages, than we would be more able to afford increased taxes, and subsequently, the governement would be more able to effectively address the growing concerns of our modern age. This has also been a wonderfully easy situation for the Republicans to exploit. As businesses continue to keep wages low, Republicans can then gain an impressive following among the working ignorant just by claiming that reducing taxes will mean more money in average Joe's pocket.
I know what you're thinking, and yes a broader tax base would mean more funds to fuel the corrupt, but a return to decency and honor is equally way over due. We must begin to consider our actions based on what is best for all of us regardless of profit margins.
Bottom line: Corporations, and the ultra-wealthy need to recognize that saving the planet means the continued existence of their consumer base.

it seems as though much of what we consume to day is here to stay. more particularly plastic products. How long could we expect to go on like this before it coming back to haunt us? not long, that is for sure.

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