My Brightest Diamond Talks Trash

[bdfoshager]

what?

[aaroplane1]

The problem is you can't see it--it just makes the water there unlivable. plastic can't biodegrade, it just photodegrades, which means it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces of plastic that can get to be so small they re-enter the life systems of animals, which means soon many organisms will have plastic lining their bodies. Who knows what health effects this will cause as time goes on?

[Skyline10789]

i feel you girl. couldn't have said it better. people need to get their act together.

[imslicc]

it's time to move on:

watch?v=RVOPkGAtt48

he has an idea that will put everything we feel daily, into practice.

[brinx513]

thats so frightening. all the little tiny things we can do to stop this sort of thing.

[KayakToday]

You tube "Wired Science/Flotsam found/PBS", "Garbage Island" and "The Great American Garbage Patch" for more info.

[KayakToday]

Check out "Beachcomber Alert" on Google. A npr interview with a hobby reseacher who is tracking this island of garbage .

[WickedMo13]

Yes there is the trash island, which is messed up! But you can at least see it. The plastic island is fucked up! Its layers go so deep, anyway.

[soundminder]

though the people magazine thing is fucked up too..

[Creepermatt]

those idiot enviromentalists must be commiting suicide right now

even i think this is important (just the trash heap though)

[soundminder]

wow. gross.

[autorockness]

eeek. there's a huge landfill not to far from where i live. ugh, terrible to think where it all really goes