Scientists Find 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'

[British0Pixie]

What this basically means is that our Governments are deciding to dump

our garbage in the sea because landfills are overflowing. There's no 'mystery'

here. The trick is to catch them in the act. Sad, but this is the legacy we leave

for our generation and generations to follow...that is if we're still here. = [

[67bandit67]

Where is it coming from? Are they serious! Hello! It's called Japan! Think about it people. The size of their country vs people living there. Then look at the ocean current and where does that current flow. Bingo. China is no prize either.

[SalemStorm]

Human = Garbage

[canadianwaffles99]

shame, shame, we are heartless creatures, and it was proved through this video, i wish we could get more people to watch it..........

[40colby]

Well I'd like to see some photos of this mythical "garbage patch the size of texas". You'd think that would be pretty easy to spot, especially from the air and film... yet I have not seen one picture of it or film. This video, like many others, claim that "scientists find the great pacific garbage patch" but like all the other videos, I don't see any actual film of it. Just a few pieces of garbage off the beach or ocean. Sounds like one big myth to me.

[xLetsGoOutInStylex]

@40colby That's because the plastic photodegrades into tiny pieces that can hardly be seen, and is about 10 m down from the surface. The plastic absorbs the toxins from the ocean, and then fish eat that. It's not a myth, it's a huge problem. Enjoy your fish next time you eat it.

[misterryanprice]

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[misterryanprice]

I wouldn't freak out about this problem, since it has been around for a while now. I would however; watch this video anyway and make a conscious effort to recycle trash and stop littering. This is our only planet to live on, we really need to learn how to live on it the right way, and get along.

[elspoko]

The patch has been there for a very long time. They didn't discover anything.

There are a few docs on the patch.

[greenalkalinerain]

Ecologists have known about it since at least the 80s, so yeah, not really a discovery. It got a lot more attention since the late 90s, though.

[CupahNoodles]

It's obvious how those trash got onto the Pacific Ocean. People litter the ocean as if its land. Now it's stirring up some attention after decades of unnoticed piling clutter. A group of scientists at University of Cali is researching how it all got there? WTF, like as if they are the first to notice about this shit.

[SuperCyberTv]

its probally crap from beaches

[Cyanidesin]

This is how we will be remembered. A pile of garbage the size of Texas.

[Ghaztoir]

Who is the douche trying to read the news teleprompter/editorial as if he considered himself the next Adam West of voice acting fame?

[reasoning777]

Sadly, when everything of any worth, animal vegetable or mineral or combination thereof has been ruined - there will be nothing left for whatever mankind is left to kill or mess up......

[GoIdenRule]

cant see it from my house!!!! naw for real please recycle..please

[lupe556]

wow there might be one 4x's bigger!

[nightmarepein]

man we need to clean that shit up....

[pablosgscr]

dirty fucking bastards

[baronderothchild]

welcome to 5 months ago....

[KagarBeardtooth]

THEY'D BETTER RECYCLE THAT!!!

[clearwater04]

well lets see a boat sinks and all the stuff on board gets moved by the current and eventually it piles up on a sand bar some where.

[rosalort]

How many boats are you sinking yearly to make trash the size of TEXAS? Get real, fool!

[clearwater04]

i'm just saying that stuff from sunken boats which are usually fishing or shipping boats could explain rubber boots ans stuff there. i didn't say it was all from there ass hole. also if you didn't know on avarage tons of decomissioned boats are sank into the ocaen all the time to make manmade reefs and are filled with stuff from elementry-high schools.

[clearwater04]

but you obviously wouldn't know that since you aren't even from the us.

[rosalort]

You a re a buffoon. Please do not bring nationality into the discussion, as you are obviously under the mistaken impression that the US educational system is superior to the rest of the world's.

[clearwater04]

i never said anything about the education system so one again your a fricken retard who doesn't even know how to read.

[ezb420]

alot bigger than texas

[SpecialKit]

This is such incredibly old news.

[frosty92314]

Am I the only one that saw that there was life taking hold on all that junk? Don't get me wrong, I am disgusted by how people litter everywhere, but muscles and crabs were living on that patch. Seems to me life is taking hold.

[jside]

my god,when will stop killing everything!

[BlytheElan]

"The Great Garbago Sea" makes me ill. The legacy of our industrial civilization...PLASTIC!

[bulldri9]

it could be the oceans natural way of isolating matter that is unnatural to its molecular structure

[MrHebrewGod]

How can a floating garbage heap,the size of Texas go unnoticed?

[bulldri9]

hmmmm probably from people so consumed in their own lives and not giving a shit about the environment like so many commericals and PSA would have you think lol

[KingNikan13]

how the fuck did no one notice that?