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 bluezfire rated 7 months ago -
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A plastic "graveyard" double the size of Texas swirls in the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii. There, his crew had found in the water six parts of plastic for every part plankton, with a fivefold increase in the amount of plastic between 1997 and 2007.
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- johnwatchtower rated 7 months ago
- contamination found in an ocean.
- ConsiderThis rated 7 months ago
- I had no idea this was happening to our oceans.
I think few people realize that plastics can do harm to them via the water they drink thinking it's healthy... without considering the effect of the plastic bottle.
When the city of Santa Fe turned off my water and Social Services brought me some bottled water next day, I was surprised at the odd taste to the water, and looked around the internet for some articles about plastic and water and there were a lot.
But it's never on the news, so how do ordinary people learn that over time there may be some danger in bottled water, from the plastic bottles.
- bluezfire rated 7 months ago
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From the page:
A plastic "graveyard" double the size of Texas swirls in the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii. There, his crew had found in the water six parts of plastic for every part plankton, with a fivefold increase in the amount of plastic between 1997 and 2007.
But their latest voyage found the pollution even thicker in the "highway" of ocean leading to the great Garbage Patch, according to Moore, who founded the Algalita Marine Research Foundation in Long Beach, Calif. Moore said that area comprises 2.5 million square miles.
In the Pacific alone, heavily polluted plastic zones amount to the size of the continent of Africa, Moore estimated.
Bobbing in the waters, especially closer to shore, are leftovers of everyday consumer products: plastic bags, toothbrushes, cigarette lighters, bottles and their caps, toys, and fast food wrappers.
"We found a video camera case that was clean enough that you could put a video camera in it, but it was starting to get covered in barnacles," he said.
Eighty percent of garbage within waterways, most of it plastic, begins its journey on land rather than coming from boats, according to Algalita and the California Coastal Commission.
Toxic plastic kills wildlife, poisons seafood, and could even exacerbate global warming.
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Are you paying attention? Please, for the love of Mother Earth and the future generations that include our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, recycle all the plastic that you can and if it's not recyclable, please reuse it. And as a consumer, if it's an item that you absolutely need - please look at it and make sure the plastic that is used in the making of said product is able to be recycled or else don't buy it!
It seems that the damage we have already done will be next to impossible to repair. But we do make decisions every day that can prevent any further harm. Are you doing your part?
- jbet777 rated 7 months ago
- No tech cure for oceans 'damned' by plastic
Posted by Elsa Wenzel
March 4, 2008.
Plastic contamination in the world's oceans is worse than previously imagined and no amount of technology can clean it up, according to Charles Moore. The oceanographer returned February 23 from a five-week odyssey in the Pacific Ocean with samples showing 48 parts plastic for every part of plankton.
"We are damned to a future of pollution by plastic," said Moore, who has spent more than a decade investigating Pacific plastic pollution. "There's no evidence it will end in a millennium."
A plastic "graveyard" double the size of Texas swirls in the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii. There, his crew had found in the water six parts of plastic for every part plankton, with a fivefold increase in the amount of plastic between 1997 and 2007."
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