Floating rubbish dump 'bigger than US' »
Posted by: Aidenag 7 months agoIt has been described as the world's largest rubbish dump, or the Pacific plastic soup, and it is starting to alarm scientists. Historically, flotsam in the gyres has biodegraded. But modern plastics do not break down like other oceanic debris, meaning objects half a century old have been found in the North Pacific Gyre.
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ETproductions7 months ago
FTA: "Professor David Karl, an oceanographer from the University of Hawaii, said the garbage patch represented a new habitat, and more studies were needed to find out what impact it was having on the ocean's eco-system."
What percentage of his funding do you reckon comes from the Plastics industry?
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Georgia507 months ago
How about an NGO that measures contribution by country (both coastal nations and those whose flag is flown on contributing vessels) and sends the bill to the respective nations?
Why should the plastics industry in the US pay for Mexican or Vietnames waste? We don't pollute our beaches this way.
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ETproductions7 months ago
Trick is figuring out what nation it is coming from. I remember well my time in the Navy when each morning we would hear the PA system blare, "Revelry revelry revelry! Sweepers, man your brooms. Give the ship a clean sweep down fore and aft. Empty all trash cans over the fantail."
Each year ships at sea dump thousands of metric tons of garbage into the oceans. Some of it is biodegradable, some of it is not.
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puffin7 months ago
"We don't pollute our beaches this way."
That's right! The US just dumps it on someone elses' beach.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=...
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BoxMonkey7 months ago
If they can find a way to use plastic for fuel , this will get cleaned up fast .
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crespi7 months ago
When we talked about this a few months ago Conservatives and Fundamentalist Christians vociferously denied it and threw the term liar around.
I'm getting REAL tired of Conservatives and Fundamentalist Christians putting out false information (like Exxon funding millions to global warming deniers) and environmental obstruction so they can fulfill their End Of the World wet dream they all seem to continuously have...
Just GO TO HEAVEN and let the rest of us work on these problems.
REAL God*amn tired.
In fact, the next neocon I see on Propeller spreading anti-environmental lies I will tear a new one.
(It's good to have goals...)
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ProudBlueTexan7 months ago
My sentiments exactly.
Conservatives plus Fundamentalist Christians plus Corporations = Fascism ....... and none of that I Got Mine crowd would sacrifice 1% of net profits to reduce global pollution (much less finance health insurance for the poor), but they'll spend millions to distort the truth.
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joeblowe7 months ago
Anyone who doesn't think there is a lot of human garbage in the oceans clearly is NOT a certified diver. You can't dive ANYWHERE (that I am aware of or have been) that you don't find human trash on the bottom of the ocean. Since plastic IS recyclable, shouldn't someone go out there with some fine nets, pick all that plastic up, and make decking and/or siding out of it?
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joeblowe7 months ago
I think that's true where they only recycle for certain purposes. Like making NEW pop bottles. Where I am, they take ALL plastics. Which, I suspect, they use to make plastic decking and the like where the exact composition isn't too important. I've used "composite" landscaping timbers that still had CHUNKS of stuff melted in - INCLUDING chunks of aluminum.
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Wolfie20077 months ago
crespi
So okay, tear me a new one. I'll give you some ammo. There is no such thing as human caused global warming/climate change or whatever you're calling it today. Also, I've written about this swirling mass of plastic in the Pacific Ocean a number of times in the past few months. It's possibly caused by your recycling of plastics bottles that go to third world countries to be used for fuel if not they are just dumped, yeah into the ocean. ninety-nine percent of the things you moonbats advocate turn into disasters, this is just the latest to be exposed.
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flyonthewallzz7 months ago
* "Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth," (Gen. 1:26).
* "Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever," (Gen. 3:22)
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flyonthewallzz7 months ago
Wolfie: I do not know how the Bible plays into your life.
I am sure it speaks differently to all.
My somewhat secular take on this is that it offers a beautiful pearl of wisdom.
I feel that if we are granted Sovereignty we must accept responsibility.
It is Evil to desecrate the tree of life. (Even the creepy things).
With our knowledge of good and Evil we may at times forget wisdom.
If we wish the tree of life to bear fruit forever we must nurture it.
If we are to rule it would be better to be benevolent.
As a moobat I know that I lack wisdom at times.
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