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  • HAIKU

    I hatch! Crawl! And swim!

    Oh how I love my sweet life,

    Don't litter my home.

    —A Green Sea Turtle

  • Soon the entire beach will consist of plastic. I love the feel of plastic between my toes!

  • I went whale watching yesterday in Cape May, NJ..I saw 2 helium ballons, 1 plastic bag, and numerous other plastics oddieties floating in the ocean...discusting . I felt helpless as we went by and I couldn't grab anything to reach them....

  • The fact you work with DI does not make you more intelligent in the first place. I work with DI too. I understand that too much GMO crap does not allow you to think straight, but still make an effort. Secondly, the so called savior of the oceans (David Rothschild) and his family is behind many multi-national corporations that actually crap up this planet. So, first that crap it up, and then they offer a “solution” that you and I have to pay for-Global Carbon Tax for example.

  • I'm shocked at the amount of the rubbish there are on our beaches... I didn't think it'll come this far, it's just so terrible.. I'm going to stop buying plastic, if i can! The only problem is that we humans are creating more and more plastic to use and it'd take awhile to digest the plastics.. we somehow need a machine to digest plastics!

  • Why can't stuff be sold in cardboard boxes again? Everything is packaged in huge amounts of plastic!

  • I actually don't firmly believe it's impossible to clean up the waste, or at list a good potion of it. Millions of people around the world are willing to help voluntarily. We should start by removing the larger items. The biggest difficulties are due to the fact that the garbage goes up and down the whole water column for miles. Also, the garbage breaks down into tiny fragments, this poses a major challenge.

  • @eggaweb its impossible becouse its microscopic amounts of plastics, plastic doesnt desintegrate but breaks in many smaller pieces, to clean the oceans you would have to literally suck all the water of it and pass trown a netting of miscroscopic filters. FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE, what we should do is use more resistent papers or other biodegradable material as shopping bags, they tear ? get a new one damn it ! the fish thing is something i said ever since i was 6,soon we'll be earting plastic food.

  • Maybe invent a large slow robot with a long arm, that drives along the beach picking up foreign objects like plastic? It's a tedious and frustrating task (like washing something that gets dirty again in 5 mins), perfect for a machine.

  • This is just pathetic.

  • The reality of what is being done to our world makes me sick. In our oceans the trash floats around in a patch twice the size of Texas going far beneath the water, mutating the species it doesn't kill.

  • Even though I do believe that oceans are being polluted, but those photographs are fake. Look at the lined grid how the caps are placed. Total fake. Another Illuminati boo-boo they think we are total dorks. Hey there, on the top of the pyramid-do better job than this or 3D animations produced by Al Gorelione-Global Warming Pope.

  • @ktougodno

    I assume you meant the large plastic bottle field filling the whole picture. The two other images following that seems plausible, Ive seen garbage in such amounts were I live.

    "here imaged by TED presenter Chris Jordan" it says underneath. This was a photshop to underline a point. Like a picture of a gazillion oil barrels next to a skyscraper to show consumption.

  • @ktougodno The wish is the father of the thought. You WISH it was fake.

  • @ktougodno i work with digital imaging, you are very ignorant

  • I think straining ocean waters for plastic should be done. it can't be any worse than throwing plastic away in the ocean. We should try.

  • Decent presentation of a big problem, but offers no steps towards a solution. All he says is to stop doing it.

  • Throughout history the nations have been ruining the earth by their incessant warfare and bad management. Since 1914, however, this ruination has escalated to an alarming degree. The air we breathe and the water we drink are contaminated. Industrial wastes threaten life on land and in the sea.Happily, Jehovah will bring to ruin those ruining the earth; he will execute judgment on those proud, godless humans who are responsible for earths sorry state.

  • Throughout history the nations have been ruining the earth by their incessant warfare and bad management. Since 1914, however, this ruination has escalated to an alarming degree. The air we breathe and the water we drink are contaminated. Industrial wastes threaten life on land and in the sea.Happily, Jehovah will bring to ruin those ruining the earth; he will execute judgment on those proud, godless humans who are responsible for earths sorry state.

  • We just need to be more aware of our choices. I live by the ocean and pick up trash on the beach everyday. It is annoying, but I won't stop until there is no more trash to pick up. Leah O.

  • El consumo vertiginoso del ser humano está superando las peores pesadillas de saturación del planeta con materiales ajenos a su naturaleza, creados por el hombre, sin medir las consecuencias.

    Obliguemos a reciclar, el plástico está matando nuestros animales!

  • Debemos exigir a las autoridades que obliguen a las corporaciones que utilizan plástico para la venta de sus productos que creen la logística necesaria para recibir nuevamente esos envases y hacerlos llegar a las fábricas para su reciclado.

  • El consumo indiscriminado de productos envasados en todo tipo de plástico en el momento actual ya deja de ser un elemento de confort para convertirse en un arma mortal para la fauna marina y las aves.

  • He actually does not seem optimistic at all. It is quite heart breaking.

  • this is maddness, we need to be killed off

  • we already are being killed off

  • Why don't you kill yourself?

  • Plastics will be the end of humans.

  • lets not just blame this on those that live by the pacific ocean. if its not going in the ocean, it's destroying land environments by going in some LANDFILL. being that the world is only 30% land, this is going to fill up fast. everyone needs to take the blame and then take action!

  • @tightnylonpants yeah but seriously fuck those pacficerers

  • You are right. I hope we will develope our communication furthermore. You have already much stufff done for this.

  • 3:44 ...

  • You're right. It is a simple concept. And I've got a perfect grasp on it.

    Check it out.

    The problem with the Pacific Ocean was caused by people who live around the Pacific Ocean. But they don't want to take responsibility for their actions and want to force everyone else to instead. They'll probably even pass some stupid laws and spend all their time bitching at the rest of us who weren't pitching bottles into the ocean instead of actually DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

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  • i don't think you can blame one country or just people living around the pacific ocean. this is everyone's problem if we are to assign blame lets start with those that profit from the plastics industry.

  • Thanks for making my point for me. And you don't have to respond. I already know that you won't get it...............

  • OVERPOPULATION; It took all of human & pre-human evolution, all pre-history and recorded history, millions and thousands of years, thru the caveman days, the evolution of civilizations, the birth of Christ, on thru to just 50 years ago for us to reach the level of population we had in about 1960. And since then that population has doubled. And if an organism becomes unsustainable, it seek it's own elimination until balance is restored. Think about it.

  • I went to Hawaii, I didn't see any trash on any of the beaches or in the water. I live in the SE of USE, I dont see much trash on the beaches and I don't see trash in the water. What am I missing?

  • the trash is under the water and is far out, you can't see it from land

  • xoLILCHICxo34, that's crap, plastic floats or did you not bother to watch the video before you commented?

  • That was actually funny. But you should try it too.

  • The store clerks usually have an attitude, pushing a plastic bag in your face, especially the ones from Longs drugs, then act all loving, ready to double bag.

  • not really...

  • The kids are swimming in plastic because they are rummaging and scavenging for stuff people throw awaythat ends up in the rivers, lakes, ocean, etc. Scavenging children make their living by picking up and selling used paper, plastic, bottles, metal pieces, tins, rags, clothes and other objects from street garbage or dumpsites. Adult scavengers do exactly the same thing. it happens all around the world even in the USA :P

  • One question to all of the debaters on this video...why the HELL are you making this a bipartisan issue, and arguing about it, instead of using your intelligence and passion to find a solution??? This isn't a bipartisan issue, it's a human issue. Please stop arguing about it, and fix it, along with the rest of us who are trying. God forbid, it may actually bring you TOGETHER in the end, because we all know that fighting over the stupidest shit brings happiness.

    Okay, rant over. :-)

  • I agree with you; however, I think you meant to say that it's not a "partisan" issue. Bipartisan means different political parties or groups working together.

  • Oops, you're right...totally missed that. Thanks for pointing that out! :-)

  • forward this to your senators, representatives and everyone else you know. post it on your facebook and twitter pages.

    BAN PETROLEUM BASED PLASTIC AND SWITCH TO BIOPLASTIC

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  • Why are the kids swimming in the plastic??

  • wow this man is a great speaker!

  • I recycle everything. Being an artist I like to have this world be as clean as possible. So I make sure everything is recycled regardless of what it is. A lot of the materials that get recycled I use in my studio untill it cant be used anymore then I recycle it. Everything has a use. Which is why everything I create in my studio is "Green" environmentally friendly. Some may be plastic but they are 100% recyclable.

  • Little tip: I used our leftover 2L soda jugs as greenhouses for starting plants indoors. VERY EFFECTIVE. Rinse jug, poke drainage holes in bottom, cut jug almost in half,leave a piece attached and flip the top half over. Fill with dirt, water well, add seeds more dirt a little water and tape closed. Tried it this year, works great.

  • Oh yea, putting it in a sunny spot helps!

  • Ultimately, Mother Nature doesn't give a shit. If we all die, she won't care, if everything dies, she won't care.

  • I meant to give it 5 stars... sorry. It locked and I couldn't fix it.

  • East, West, South, North, whatever...

    The real question, what are WE going to do about

    it?

    Come on, does recycling really help. The problem is here is that the world is producing to many plastic or whatever it is, but it more than we can handle. You heard the Man. Not with nations combine we solve this problem.

    I'll try to conserve my plastics as much as I can, but at one point it has to be thrown away.

    Anyways, it up to the individual. People have to stop thinking that they own the planet

  • Some people are just way too egotistic in order to take the responsibility. Is it too hard to understand that this monster MANKIND has created will someday, probably sooner than we expected, come back and kick us in the butt? It'll affect each and every single one of us and I'm most certain nature doesn't have a list of how much you polluted throughout your life in order to declare an individual punishment.

  • Ok, Captain Planet........................­

  • So you're saying that other people created the problem, everyone else gets held responsible and I don't have a right to bitch about it..............wow...........­...

  • Complain much?

    I believe most people in the world have already been over the responsibily issue. What's at stake now is what're we gonna do about a problem that's global and which can only be overcomed by the combined help of everyone.

    And kudos to you for being such an environmentalist (though I HIGHLY doubt you wasted nothing throughout your entire life). Even though the passive behaviour will get you nowhere.

  • "though I HIGHLY doubt you wasted nothing throughout your entire life"

    Well, if that's the test of who is an environmentalist, then I guess there is no such thing as an environmentalist.

    You ask, "what're we gonna do"? Well, if "we" is California, that's a good question. As for the rest of us? Don't include us. We didn't cause it. It's not our doing. Now get off your asses and do something about it other than whining about it and trying to get others to do your work for you.

  • I'm not a californian, FYI. Not even geographically close to the insanity the video depicts. But it'll be global one day, and when it reaches the east coast you'll be the ones whining and demanding for action.

    As for who's an environmentalist or not, no, that's not the real test, not even close to what I wrote. A bit of logic: you'd be an environmentalist if you'd waste nothing [utopist thought], but if you waste some doesn't mean you're not an environmentalist. Capisce?

  • You know it's kind of funny, if you look at a political map of the US, the majority of conservatives live in the clean countryside and rural areas and liberals live in the concrete and pavement, polluted, rundown, trash covered urban areas. And then liberals have the nerve to call themselves "environmentalists" and they pass laws that affect people who live in the rural areas because the libs can't control themselves when they come out to the country for the weekend. Crap.

  • Odd isnt it?

  • Leave it to a right winger to say someting like this and make this a partisan issue. If you would educate yourself, you would know that living in a city is one of the most green things you can do!!! In your utopian "rural" areas, you are polluting the environment by putting everything in a landfill. Where my parents live (rural area) they don't even have a recycling program! Please educate yourself before you open your mouth.

  • Lol! OMG! Did you really say that?! You're going to tell me that NYC, LA, Philly, Boston or any other city where you can cut the air it's so thick with pollution or where you can't swim in a river or at a beach because it's so polluted is cleaner and greener than the hills of Vermont?! Lol! Your out of your friggin' mind! Wow! The lengths someone will go to for an argument. Please, please, tell me you were joking.

    BTW, cities use landfills or even dump trash into harbors. No landfills in Vermont

  • Oops, how silly of me! I ought to have figured it out before: it's the damn liberals' again, gathering up in their piles of concrete near the shore, throwing their dirty bottles into the ocean! Why does it always have to come down to a political showdown everytime America faces a setback?

    You're the ones who still hang on to your "American Dream", you should know nothing comes effortless and that no one will solve your problems but yourselves! That is, if you first admit there's a problem...

  • Ummm. I know your response came to me, but I can't tell who's post it is referring to or what your point is.......................

  • I was referring to your comment five days ago. The one that starts "You know it's kind of funny (...).

    My point is: whether we like it or not, the United States of America are Earth's leading force and when the rest of us aren't trying to defy that authority we're just waiting for you to show us the way. And as long as you're still struggling about your internal silliness and economic costs when it comes to the environment, we'll stay put.

    Money won't buy us a new Earth if we kill this one.

  • What the hell are you talking about? Look, put the crack pipe down and slowly back away. When you sober up and can form a coherent thought, please do reply. I'm eager to hear what you sound like without the slurring of thoughts.

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  • Most conservatives live in "clean areas" mainly because the population in most red states is sparse. Isolated, miss-informed, uneducated conservative kooks tend to live in sparse open areas. They also have lower life expectancies (there is a god) thanks to higher rates if obesity, higher rates of smoking , lack of education (yes that does have an effect). The the bible belt has been known as the cancer belt for a while, because those "clean" red states over/misused pesticide over the years.

  • fjwjr is a silly.

  • You're not even doing anything about it. Just whining.

    Is the problem getting any better while all you people are arguing with me?

    No, in your warped little minds, it's actually more important to argue with me than to actually DO ANYTHING about the problem.

    And you actually have the nerve to claim that you're better educated and soooooo much smarter................

  • Have you east coast people EVER been to one of your beaches?? There is plastic trash everywhere!!! You can spend all day cleaning it up if you want, tomorrow more will wash up to replace it. Just because the video focuses on the west coast, doesn't mean it's just their problem! It's everyone's problem!

  • I've been on beaches from Maine to Key West and I haven't seen what you claim.

    By the way, some of those pictures look like pictures of flooding. Like pictures from New Orleans. Why would people be willingly paddling or swimming in a river of trash? Quite different than the implied claim that people are constantly throwing trash into the ocean.

  • Try looking a little closer next time.

  • sad

  • That poor turtle....

  • What the video doesn't explain is how garbage travels AROUND THE WORLD! There are barges of waste going to landfills far from the source of the garbage. Birds carry our garbage distances during their migrations.

    All man-kind consumers anywhere on our planet contribute to the problem.

  • People are sick of this , time to move forward with intelligence.

  • It's both. Tons of waste is preconsumer. Producers are part of a system that lacks pollution accountability. Consumers do not always have an environmentally sound choice. Ex. no recyclable bags of granola, I can't bring my glass jar to go get it filled with OJ at the supermarket. Also consumers can't always afford the environmental choice because the costs included in the price are internalized rather than externalized. Then there are the consumers that don't care or see the big picture.

  • How incredibly sad. We should make every producer liable for where his products end up at, and make them responsible for any non- degradable or recyclable waste that is left.

  • not the producers fault... its the consumers.

  • Good talk, He should have memorized his speech a little more.

  • Need biodegradables, for that, apparently we need money. Good luck world.

  • Hmmmmm. He makes it sound like OUR problem (talking about how many bottles WE use), but it seems to me to that none of the bottles that end up in the Pacific come from New England or Iowa or Montana or Texas or even Nevada. I would think (unless I failed geography, which I didn't) that it would be a California or west coast problem. Funny the the most liberal and "environmentally conscious" state is killing an entire ocean. How are you going to fix YOUR problem without making it mine.

  • where do you think the plastics are made? do you not have rivers or flowing water in those states?

  • Did you really say that? Show me one river that flows from New England or Iowa or Montana or Texas or Nevada, going through other states collecting bottles along the way, snaking it's way through Oregon, Washington or California and then dumping it all into the Pacific.

  • fjwjr sure, right after you show me one state or country for that matter, that which is not affected by plastic waste. toolbox4u

  • Don't change the subject. The point is that even though this guy wants you to believe that we are ALL responsible for what has been done to the Pacific, there is NO WAY that anyone who lives east of California, Washington or Oregon can have contributed to the problem. So why should we be held accountable for a problem we didn't create and don't suffer from?

    Might as well make us responsible for reversing the greenhouse effect on Venus.

  • fjwjr, we ALL contribute because we are ALL using plastic products. there would be NO plastic in the ocean if we did NOT use plastic.

    its our fault as a whole, no doubt about it. plastic and oil is obsolete but most people dont know that and thats what the oil companies want.

  • Wow, I can't believe that you don't get it. I live in Vermont. So how am I, or anyone within 2500 miles of me, responsible for what ends up in the Pacific Ocean? This is a west coast problem. Nobody else (well, except Pacific rim countries) in America. Not unless they took a vacation to the Pacific just to throw something in it.

    I'll worry about the Atlantic. If there's a problem there, I'll address it and I won't expect California to deal with it.

  • wow, you're an absolut douchebag. what a pointless fucking argument

  • Pointless?! What's pointless is people in this country who constantly create problems and expect others to alter their lives to deal with it or for others to pay for it.

    I didn't cause this. Neither did over 250 million other Americans so don't tell us what WE have to do about it.

    Typical liberal "I'm going to live my life my way and then make you pay for it when it all goes wrong" mentality.

  • fjwjr do you use plastic ?

  • .......Not west of New York...................

  • why do you assume that this is only a liberal concern?

  • It's not, but it is a west coast concern

  • Do you happen to be an idiot?

    First of all the Pacific Ocean isn't the only sea in the world that is suffering from plastic. Do you happen to know that all of Earth's seas are connected to each other? And the plastic that doesn't degrade naturally travels around the globe. So your crap can be found in the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan and the Baltic sea and every other sea there is.

    Please, take your head out of your ass and try to realize that this is a global problem.

  • So, you mean to tell me that the plastic bottle I put in the recycling today somehow managed to liberate itself from captivity, roll across the state and into the Conn. River where it burrowed through the ice and made it downstream climbing over dams to the ATLANTIC. From there it swam down and around the southern tip of South America (because I doubt it had money for the Pamama canal) then north west to Asia where it killed a bird.

    Got it.

    Now how is someone in Nebraska responsible?

  • "From there it swam down and around the southern tip of South America"

    Against ocean currents, I might add...................

  • You quite missed my point of this being a global problem. It isn't your problem or my problem but a problem of all of us.

  • How is it a problem for ALL of us? How are people who live in land locked areas up to 1200 miles from any ocean and no river leading to the ocean responsible in any way? How is this EVERYBODY'S problem?

    I've never seen a river of floating plastic, so it seems to me that this is a problem created by people who live in coastal cities.

    Now, all this guy talked about was the Pacific. So, again, how are the other 250 million of us responsible for the actions of the people who live on the west coast?

  • Wow you don't get it do you.

  • Balancex3 wasn't just refering to the plastic issue in the pacific ocean, he was also reffering to the plastic that ends up in ALL oceans.

  • ALL oceans wasn't the topic here, was it? This was all about how bad things are in the Pacific and what "WE" are going to do about it.

  • The point is that garbage can travel, and that despite it not being your fault, it will still negatively affect you. Besides, a bird with beer holders wrapped around it's neck fly's from your "isolated" spot and dies in the ocean, contributing to the problem.

  • "The point is that garbage can travel"

    Of course it does. It just packs it's plastic bags and goes.

  • Lol, especially since I live in iowa, I would know they have rivers here. We got FLOODED last year, and the water is rising up again this year.

  • Exactly what I needed for my paper.

    I LOVE TED.

  • When I delivered furnace oil I took a oil spill course offered by the BC ministry of enviroment. I was told the most enviromentally safe way of disposing of the oily rags used to sop up the oil spills was to burn them as opposed to burying them which would take much longer to decompose. Remember Gulf war 1 when Saddam burned all those oil wells. At the time it seemed like the apocolypse but it cleared up. We should burn this sea of garbage as it is the lesser evil option.

  • Yes i agree, but first of all this problem can be stop if more schools or teachers were kindly teach how really going on when you put your plastic garbage! on the river or sea, they put on mind how water are really good on our lives, Cause at first EDUCATION is the key to prevent this problem with the voluntary help of the government or local society.

  • population control

  • We quickly need a strong and capable plan to pump it into the minds of everyone across the world from child to adult, that people are ALWAYS at home, they DO NOT leave home upon stepping out of the door their house/apartment/cave, therefore everyone should act accordingly. Everything else (recycling, garbage collection, general lowering pollution) is secondary to this.

    I reckon it could be done in a year or so if governments, global media and businesses work together.

  • you can go fuck yourself and die in a fire :)

  • i noticed when i was in las vegas last. that there isnt ANY place to put plastic bottles for recycling. is this unique to LV or is there no recycling program in america?

  • I live in Hawaii and this info just about rips my heart out .. this may be a tipping point that has no return if we dont do something now .. I use glass for my water containers ..cook in glass and take my own container with me for them to put the take out in if I dine out ..

  • Yet another example of how the human race is doomed out of sheer stupidity. Add it to the pile.

  • Just nevermind.

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  • And that is why I always reused my condoms

  • A great idea 5 cents a cap....a great way to motivate people! I wish more people would follow your example. Man will be the end of Man if we don't wake up.

  • man will be the end of more than just man...other life forms...possibly even the enitre globe

  • They should've been ten cents.

  • well done, aMERICA !! god bless you all !!!

  • i help recycle bottles at our school :)

  • Good vid. I took a swim at brighton (england) and broke my neck on a floating turd....................

  • I would like to use this as an opportunity to tell any interested parties that it is possible to make fully biodegradable plastics from HEMP. Thats right folks! the amazing plant that can be used to make fuel, rope, cloth, paper, concrete, food, and can get you high to boot, can also be used to make plastic! Why is it illegal to grow in America!??!?!?!

  • It seems King Barak I will legalize hemp in your country as a means to tax its producers and distributors and help government to recover from the series of bailouts. CIA is having such huge profits from crack cocaine for the past years, that she no long fears hemp legalization and the consequent lost of one of its revenues.

  • Say what?

    Do people actually watch videos before typing their comments?

    You Tube please clean up stupid comments.

    Enjoyed the talk. Too short.

  • We can only hope, even so it will take a long time to get decordicators up and running. Not to mention all the infrastructure that would be required for the various industries. The "bailouts" are designed to actualized as much wealth from dollar holders overseas before the system collapse. This is a headless snake coiling around itself as it dies. We have a golden opportunity to get out of fractional reserve banking and to have an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen.

  • You don't know what is going on in America. Oh and here we call them President not King, even though you were being sarcastic i thought you should at least have the respect and knowledge of knowing our government is not in the process of legalizing anything, just decriminalizing it. I have my Assoc. in Criminal Justice and am happy they are taking that first step.

  • "They're" afraid that the catchfraze will turn out to be true, that hemp will save the world, when "they" obviously don't want to.

  • I am so embarrassed to be a human being.

    The Charge from Holly Writ (If one so believes) was to protect & preserve creation.

    If one Caters to a Strictly Pagan (As in Nature worshiping) View, Use/Dispose is way out of harmony with Natural Law, as he said, Humans: the only creatures who produce waste that is not broken down by nature.

    If one simply believes nothing, at least a decency to live & leave this world a bit better for those to be born?

    Only a Pettifogging Narcissist would disagree.

  • Side note: Sphingomonas can only biodegrade a little over 40% of a plastic shopping bag, which leaves a large portion of waste left over.

  • Sphingomonas, does not infect as many species as Pseudomonas, which can infect plants and animals (including humans) and if placed in mass into the ocean will cause major casualties in fish and aquatic plant populations. Not to mention the ensuing infection caused by ingestion of an infected fish or plant, which in turn causes an internal infection that is only treatable by a multi-antibiotic treatment, which is rather expensive.

  • There is a flaw in using Pseudomonas and Sphingomonas. Both of them cause bad infections (Sphingomonas is non-life threatening, Pseudomonas can be). Now Sphingomonas is relatively easy to treat through anti-biotics, but Pseudomonas is developing immunity to anti-biotics. The main problem with relying on these two to biodegrade our plastics is that they are not plentiful enough in the ocean to do the job. Also, if we "dump" them into the ocean we will see a widespread amount of infection.

  • Tears....

  • "For his efforts Burd won top prize at a Canada-wide science fair claiming a $10,000 prize and a $20,000 scholarship. "Tests to identify the strains found strain two was Sphingomonas bacteria and the helper was Pseudomonas. A researcher in Ireland has found Pseudomonas is capable of degrading polystyrene, but as far as Burd and his teacher Mark Menhennet know -- and they've looked -- Burd's research on polyethelene plastic bags is a first.""

    Stop worrying about plastic, and focus on religion.

  • The aforementioned strains of bacteria "eat" plastic by working together...in case you missed the point.

  • Oh my god . I thing the best solution is to stop producing plastic.

  • sad face

  • Well at least he makes a positive contribution.

    What have you done ?

  • I think that people across the planet have simply forgotten the "suck-it-up" attitude. Instead of buying a durable waterbottle and refilling it, they throw their hands up at the last minute, seemingly unaware that they might eventually get thirsty.

    I see bottles placed neatly upright, with something approaching sardonic intent, as though the presentation of an orderly disposal is all that is required.

    I think we in the US need to start taxing small plastic bottles until it stings...

  • Plus, people are afraid that water bottles will cause birth defects if they buy a durable one. Stupid people.

  • thanks for sharing.

  • The solution..."Stop the plastic at its source, stop it on land before it falls int the ocean". and that quote from the end of this video does not have to be just a dream. We need to do something to curb this serious problem! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

  • I am so glad that this topic is finally being brought to light. The affects of plastic not only pollute our Earth but also the very cells of every living animal. Seeing the ingested content of the 4 month old albatross broke my heart. This is proof that the thoughtless way humans treat this Earth goes far beyond that which we see wash up onto the beaches. We need to acknowledge this problem instead of turning our backs on it!

  • Nah, it's going to continue until bacteria evolve to eat our crap.

    I'm not so sure that plastic is as unbiodegradable as we think.

  • Well, thats nice and really depressing. :[

  • Plastic , yet another greed driven product brought to us all by Big Oil, not content with rupturing the atmosphere with unrestrained burning , greater profit could be made from unrestrained use of toxic Oil based plastics.

    No wonder they are the richest most profitable companies in Human history.

    Pure Money worshiping Evil.

  • dickyco2! Amen to that!

  • I wonder if an animal can evolve to consume this plastic... If some animals can digest cellulose why cant they be modified to digest plastic?

  • "WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags"

    The Record, May 2008

  • His process uses a high concentration those microbes to speed up decomposition. Easily applicable for the trash we still have on shore (should work great in industrial waste management centers), but I don't know if you'd be able to maintain the right conditions out on the open sea.

    Its a positive step at the very least.

  • maybe on few thousand years, if there is any left.

  • this is a horrible cycle, humans are stupid, we deserve what we get....

  • We do, they don't.

  • The content of your observation is correct, but only when taken out of the context of the discussion, and you know it. Thumbs down? ...yes. Illusion? ...no. The only illusion is the one you make by ignoring the context of sustainable natural cycles with regard to human beings.

  • Everything is "natural cycle". Human can't break it, since he is part of nature itself. It can only create new cycle that lasts shorter or longer period of time.

  • i agree.

  • I did not say humans are not a part of nature. It would be silly to think otherwise. What I was talking about was the context of the discussion; that being natural cycles of which humans have the greatest effect on.