Website review: Are There Really Continents of Floa...
sustainablogger discovered this in Environment
•51 reviews since Dec 31, 2007
environment, garbage, pollution
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sustainablogger discovered 7 months ago- From the page: "Since stories have started surfacing more recently, many have wondered if the rumors are true. Are there really â€continentsâ€, or massive floating garbage patches residing in the pacific ocean? Apparently, the rumors are true, and these unsightly patches are reportedly killing marine life and releasing poisons that enter the human food chain, as well. Indeed, the human race has really made its mark. One plastic patch is estimated to weigh over 3 million tons and covers an area twice the size of Texas."
- OrangeAppled rated 3 weeks ago
- It disturbs me when there are great alternatives to something & yet it's not in use... From the page: "The company Plantic Technologies, has developed biodegradable plastic for everything from food and beverage packaging to medical, agricultural and sporting applications. The chief executive of Plantic, Grant Dow, says once composted, the plastic would become nothing more than carbon dioxide and water. "For all intents and purposes, it looks like plastic and feels like plastic and does the same thing as plastic in the application," he says. "It will only biodegrade in the presence of heat, moisture and bacteria, so it will sit in your cupboard pretty much indefinitely, but when the bacteria get to it in compost, that's it. It's gone.""
- egbert rated 5 weeks ago
- so there's 8 continent now?
- jeanmare rated 7 weeks ago
- From the page: "...Since his first encounter with the gyre in 1997, Moore created the Algalita Marine Research Foundation to help study the problem. Canadian filmmaker Ian Connacher joined Moore last year to film the garbage patch for his documentary, I Am Plastic. "The most menacing part is those little bits of plastic start looking like food for certain animals, or the filter feeders don't have any choice, they just pick them up," noted Connacher. Perhaps an even bigger problem is hiding beneath the surface of the islands of garbage. Greenpeace reports that about 70 per cent of the plastic that makes it to the ocean sinks to the bottom, where it then smothers marine life on the ocean floor. Dutch scientists have found 600,000 tons of discarded plastic on the bottom of the North Sea alone. A study by the Japanese geochemist Hideshige Takada and his colleagues at Tokyo University in 2001 found that plastic polymers soak up the resilient poisons such as DDT and polychlorinated biphenyls. The researchers found that non-water-soluble toxic chemicals can be found in plastic in levels as high as a million times their concentration in water. As small pieces of plastic are mistaken for fish eggs and other food by marine life, these toxins end up at the dinner table..." Why are we still manufacturing and using plastics and all it's chemical cousins? Are we, as consumers, so disconnected that we can't don't see that all our little plastic containers and baggies as well as our soda & water bottles are part of a huge problem? When we vacationed at the beach, as recently as 10 years ago, we walked and collected 'beach glass', or sea glass as some call it. Now, we walk along and see what we refer to as 'beach plastic'- disposable lighters, plastic caps from bottles, the bottles themselves, along with small, unidentifiable bits of colored plastic.
- GreenLivin rated 8 weeks ago
- I was totally blown away by reading this article. I had no idea what was floating in the ocean. We must stop consuming plastic products and be conscious of what we throw away.
- bevcarlson rated 2 months ago
- Rather scary thought!
- javamanjoe rated 3 months ago
- CONTINENTS OF TRASH IN THE PACIFIC. Thanks 'berrypicker'. Since stories have started surfacing more recently, many have wondered if the rumors are true. Are there really `continents', or massive floating garbage patches residing in the pacific ocean? Apparently, the rumors are true, and these unsightly patches are reportedly killing marine life and releasing poisons that enter the human food chain, as well. Indeed, the human race has really made its mark. One plastic patch is estimated to weigh over 3 million tons and covers an area twice the size of Texas.
- berrypicker rated 3 months ago
From the page: "Since stories have started surfacing more recently, many have wondered if the rumors are true. Are there really continents", or massive floating garbage patches residing in the pacific ocean? Apparently, the rumors are true, and these unsightly patches are reportedly killing marine life and releasing poisons that enter the human food chain, as well. Indeed, the human race has really made its mark. One plastic patch is estimated to weigh over 3 million tons and covers an area twice the size of Texas"
- johnpocket rated 5 months ago
- WOW,how fucked are we?
- davenme rated 5 months ago
- Time to wake up people.
