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All the oceans near Oklahoma are plastic free!
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On the density... and the density of the deniers of harsh reality (pretty fk'n dense). It's cyclical - nothing to worry about nature will take her course. FK KOOSTOE!...and, of course, all his ilk (he was Franch ya know ![]()
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Strange I just heard a piece on the radio about some college study that was going to the "island". They said while collectively the amount of plastic may be massive, visibly you would like see nothing. Small bits per cubic meter. They were going to try and determine how much was really there.
Still sounds like a business opportunity if someone wants to "mine", or make that fish, for plastic. Gotta be cheaper than making it fresh, plus you can probably get some UN/Charity typ backing.
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That said, yes - this is a serious problem and we can't just keep poo-pooh-ing the impact that humans have on our planet. We need to get past this "we'll just do whatever the hell we want and then rationalize away the consequences" stuff. Our kids deserve better than that. And no, that doesn't mean that we all have to become granola-eating, Birkenstock-wearing, smelly hippies that only use two squares of toilet paper a week. It means actually (1) admitting that human beings have a perceptible negative impact on the planet in an unsustainable way and (2) actually being willing to put something else (like our planet, our society and our kids' futures) above ourselves and our selfish desires. People have an impact. Seven BILLION (7,000,000,000) people sure as hell have an impact. The operative word here is "mitigation". Do what you can, which is certainly more than simply parroting the arrogant, dismissive attitudes of the most vapid and boorish among us.
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I think that we should have a protest. We should take all of the plastic water bottles, containers, wrappers, and maybe some of the foam stuff from restaurants, take it to the nearest bay or water source (extra points if it eventually connects to an ocean) and dump it into the water!! Just like the Boston Tea Party.
That'll show 'em!
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This should have nothing to do with politics...it's common sense. Common sense tells me it isn't a good idea to put garbage / chemicals... into the air we breath, dirt we grow food or water we drink. I think it would be a good idea if we treated the entire planet like our front yard. By the sound of it several of you could care less about pollution in the ocean or anywhere else for that matter. Yet I'd bet if some guy day after day tossed empty plastic water bottle onto your front lawn you'd scream bloody murder. I guess it's out of sight out of mind. As long as the problem is out in the Ocean who cares. We'll just wait until it grows so big and dense that it becomes a real problem and then deal with it. I've never understood that logic but more and more it seems to be the American way. Federal deficit, social security, Medicare, mortgages mess, credit cards...
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So it's all those cutup credit cards, floating around.... Damn Americans! Its always their fault.
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lukeh is right
but we don't know the magnitude of the problem yet yes, it is certainly "worthy of concern" -- it is being studied, and we can then take whatever ation is required there are many, many more problems - just in the ocean - that are surely of greater magnitude than this one big example is acidificastion of all oceans -- that will heavily affect marine life, and is already affecting coral reefs (which are major fish habitat) |
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Virtually none. Those have been "outsourced" as well. Typically Liberia (one of the cheapest places to flag ships).
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heres something most of you pro recyclers dont know about. here in phoenix we have had the honor and distinction of building quite a few dumps along or in riverbanks. amazing brainpower here. anyway over the years these dumps have been closed down, after washing away during massive floods and crap going down the salt river into the gila river and then into the colorado river.
during one of these flood episodes we went out the salt river by north mesa and found 1000's of hypodermic needles. how nice! anyway phx metro and surrounding cities finally figured this crap out and has closed all of the dumps along drainage systems. for about the next 1000 years i wouldnt eat fish downstream of phx. ie. high mercury %. anyway phx metro now has transfer stations. these transfer stations take all the garbage from phx metro and surrounding cities to MOBILE,ARIZONA. mobile ,az. is south of phx. it is along the southern pacific r.r. tracks. at this location all metro phx trash arrives. i used to call on their machine shop and had the honor of getting a tour. now heres the part most of you "green folk" dont realize. this type of dump is an equal to 1000's across the country. it has massive conveyor belts and EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF TRASH IS SORTED BY CONTENT! yep guys dressed in haz mat bunny suits SORTING ALL THE TRASH. so what this means is YOU ARE PAYING your trash service for recycle bins per month, and actually DOING THEIR JOB WHICH YOU PAY FOR ALREADY! if a plastics truck comes in, its placed on plastic conveyor. if paper comes in ditto. if a general garbage ft end loader truck comes in, it goes onto the general conveyor and IT IS SORTED! dont fool yerself yer helping the environment, all yer doing is a scam perpetuated by the waste companies to do THEIR JOB! multiple by 5 million people give or take. and then waste company sells recycled product to mfg's and it becomes pure PROFIT for waste company. ie. if you dont recycle.................it still gets sorted and sold. and you pay extra $$$ per month per wood/plastics/metal/glass bins. think about dat! |
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The superfund is called rinsing your fruits and vegetables before you prepare them. See, you're part of the solution and didn't even realize it. If that bothers you maybe you could dump some oil down the drain as a pick me up.
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Plastic is 2nd largest volume of material (18%) going to California landfills – paper (30%)- therefore plastics most significant part of the marine litter problem Plastic accounts for over 3\4 of all debris found In the marine environment 90% of floating litter is plastic 60% of debris collected annually by Coastal Cleanup volunteers on beaches world-wide is plastic In Southern Atlantic Ocean, quantity of debris increased 100 times in the early 1900s. In coastal areas of Japan, from the 1970s to the 1980s, marine plastic particle densities increased ten fold in 10 years. In the 1990s in Japan, densities appear to have increased ten fold every 2-3 years. 267 species known to be effected, including 86% of all sea turtle species, 44% of all sea bird species, 43% of marine mammal species die of ingestion, entanglement, starvation, suffocation 20 years ago, researchers estimated 100,000 marine mammal deaths per year in N. Pacific related to entanglement in fishing gear Between 700,000 and 1 million seabirds are killed from entanglement or ingestion each year 20-40 % comes from ocean-based sources - Commercial fishing vessels - Cargo ships (overboard discharge of containers and garbage) - Pleasure cruise ships 60-80% of marine debris comes from land-based sources: - Litter (pedestrians, motorists, beach visitors) - Industrial discharges (pellets and powders) - Garbage management (containers, trucks, landfills)
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did read all the posts, but how about a picture of this monsterous flowing island?
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Follow me here: Three quarters of the worlds populations live within 10 miles of the coasts(I thunk) and depend on the oceans as a major food source.
No food leads to starvation, leads to political upheavals, leads to strife with a variety of weapons(i.e. nuclear). It will come, hopefully not in my lifetime. (ok, just a little dramatic) |
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"Since I can't see it on the 100 yards of beach I visit, the problem isn't real anywhere else in the world." is that your position?
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