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The world's rubbish dump: a tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
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Its these people that need to know what they are doing to their fishing industry and children's future .
Already the chemicals are being rejected and effecting the fish or killing the fish. Worse The fish become less so people turn on wild life for food.
One day them selves. Cannibalism one day will be back. All because western man interfering with the third world bring them forward with out education and understanding awareness of the environment. I am trying to make this awareness open to all. on my web site www.diveactive.com. and face book gary bridger I see kids driving cars emptying rubbish on the road. people flicking signet ends out the window to lazy to use an ash try and a bin. For every thing you buy here, the put it in a plastic bag no mater how small. drink bottles, food containers.
Its all going in the sea. And they don,t seem to care.
This could be a good international project to help the environment funded by the G10 countries of the world. At any rate it needs to be addressed and cleaned up. In the future this floating sewer could come back to bite us all. We need to do the right thing and clean it up! This could be gold mine for a recycle center!
George Victor
Harrison Twp, MI
You can carry a canvas bag to the supermarket and reuse it every time you go shopping to any sort of store for any kind of purchase.
And practice making your own food at home; it is not only pleasurable and highly creative but it is also an age old social tradition in sharing culture.
If you seek proof of the giant trash dump twice the size of the U.S., I suggest that you start at Area 51 and work your way slowly out to the Bermuda Triangle. Beware though, your photos can only be seen by those who truly believe.
I continue to collect this sad mess off the beach and i'll tell you this..the marine life are not to blame!!! It seems from my what i'm reading here, blame is our first call to action. Please, let's educate and take responsibility, our world has become a signature of the human race...ask yourself this, " are you proud of the way you've been treating mother nature?"
Believe me, if Mother Nature wants to clean things up herself there will be no second chance!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXVw19bP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9oSikW3
that took me 3 minutes Look Harder just because it does not show up on your start-up page does not mean it is not out there.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/200
To me, this is just another warning to mankind to clean up our act and that time is running out. I say "just" lightly of course because it is by no means trivial. But I say "just" also because I think man is just too stupid, selfish and arrogant to heed it and do anything about it. Too many of the world's 6 billion people seem incapable of seeing beyond their nose the ramifications of their own actions (I'm not referring to only this topic here).
This problem, as is any global issue, is for us all to solve: individuals, families, communities, business, government.
- As individuals, we can buy goods without plastic wrapping, recycle, consume less.
- As families, we can teach our young environmental values and consideration for matters other than "self".
- As communities, we can educate and promote awareness.
- As business, we can sacrifice some of the almighty currency and find alternatives to plastic.
- As government, we can find ways to dispose of our trash that leasts impacts our environment.
I stumbled across this issue today for the first time - I never heard of this great rubbish tip in the ocean, but it doesn't surprise me. It answers a question I have wondered for a while - where does all our crap go? We produce so much waste every day ... now I know.
This is exactly the kind of views that have lead to this. WE ARE ALL RESONSIBLE and should all start to clean up our acts and stop blaming others and telling them to clean up the mess that we have all created!
In addition to obtaining a full accounting of the distribution of the plastics and their impacts on marine ecosystms, we need to start focussing urgently on possible solutions - how to prevent the disposal of marine debris in the first place and how to mitigate the impacts. To date, I have not seen a list of practical solutions.
Bob Steinbock
THIS IS TO BE A PROJECT FROM THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE! so help us god, allah djaweh. (yourself)
To the readers below,,, have you ever used a plastic bag??? Then you are a part of the problem as well.
This is, and will stay our resposibility... NON EXCLUDED!!!!
Don't be a simpleton, BE A SOLUTION.. ROB.. (Netherlands)
NOTHING MORE THAN A GUILT CAMPAIGN--A LEFTOVER FROM THE INQUISITION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrAShtol
there's plenty of good imagery of the problem here. you should take a closer look than that afforded by a satellite view.
Steve Bennett UK
I am forming a non for profit organization to harvest the plastic in our oceans. I will out fit a Tanker ship with collection equipment that will sift the rubbish from the water it then gets screened for sea life and returns to shore with about 45,000 Tons of trash to be recycled or disposed of in a responsible manner from each trip out. I am still in the Design. I am sure once I have completed the filings and donations would become tax deductable I will get enough to fund the research and devlopment and even the building of the ship itself. My goal is to set sail with in the next five year.
Can I count on your support.
But seeing as it's out there, can it be "mined" for recyclable plastics? As long as the new recycled plastic products are never disposed of in the same irresponsible way.
Nope ,dream on folks,get those wallets open.