The Dangers of Plastic: Interview with Charles Moore

[StephanieLisaTara]

HAIKU

I hatch! Crawl! And swim!

Oh how I love my sweet life,

Don't litter my home.

—A Green Sea Turtle

[BryanConover]

Charlie...You need to teach these fish how to not eat plastic...PROBLEM SOLVED !!

[princesofserendip]

BPA is bad, but all plastics are bad for you and the environment and contain toxic additives. For a entertaining music video explaining more about this, see The 7 Deadly Plastics on youtube.

[jetsetpeasant]

This demonstrates how shortsighted humans are. I think it's our selfish nature that causes us to choose convenience over any kind of long term solution.

[Enigma758]

Something we use for seconds, for all intent and purposes, lasts forever. How true. I understand there are now plastic like materials made from biological products that can be designed to degrade within a set period of time.

[dickyco2]

Big Oil.

Not content with filling our thin atmosphere with their climate changing Oil smoke , even more profit was to be had filling our oceans with their poisonous Oil based Plastics.

Big Oil , who have knowingly pushed these products of Apocalypse to us all through their unrestrained greed have become the richest most profitable companies in all of Human history.

[ronaldreika]

i reuse plastic bags (even wash & dry'em) & carry items in hand. i keep a plastic bag in my back pocket which gets used till it breaks. then it's still ok 2 pic up doggy dodo. the stickler 4 me is the plastic water bottles. the water is gross out of the tap even filtered. standardized industrial packaging would help reduce waste by means of every products containers being interchangeable by all industries regardless of location.

DON'T LITTER!! IT'S DANGEROUS TO MARINE LIFE.

[TomSwervo1]

I can't stand how the "Illuminati" types here are willing to spend the rest of their lives surfing this site scaring the shit out of people(like myself) with all the quite real dangers we have to deal with in today's world...yet when you ask them for solutions, they almost always look you in the eye, yawn in your face, and go on to the next YouTube video. I think the imminent end of mankind is a possibility, and EVEN I'M NOT THAT PESSIMISTIC.

Who're the REAL sinners here?

[zoraom]

what do you mean TomSwervo1?

is it not obvious problem with plastic polution?

maybe not experienced directly now for you and me..

science can find better solutions but maybe someone will stop it,

I am not scientist to bring solution for this problem, but I can stop using plast as much as possible

[MinkRobinson]

Where do we start? Where do I start?

[gastmaus]

Just stop using plastic items whenever you can: take your own bag at the supermarket, choose glasbottles when you have the choice ... just little steps, but its the only chance we have. 2. DO NOT LITTER! All the tiny things you may drop at the street will end in the ocean one time. Respect mother earth. Be aware!

[younwhosarmy]

This all due to the Soulless, Corporate entities that comprise the oil and pharmaceuticals industry.... People are basically sheep... Governments have failed us all...

[Truth666]

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the populace is given two basic possibilites to drink water today.

25 May 2009, illuminati reveal how they poison the populace using the second possibility. PET bottles

In the revelation, illuminati explicitly stated the two main consequences.

the first possibility, which they detailed seven mothns earlier to the day, has also three characters: TAP.

But in the second possibility the POISON is transmitted in a different way.

** Google **

MattMarriott Global Genocide Water

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[ndyt]

The only substitute for plastic bottles is glass or metal. We need to filter the mouths of each river to keep it out of the ocean.

[dinkolino2]

@ndyt

so its ok that the rivers are polluted?

[ndyt]

dinkolino2, polluted? With what? Plastic? I would be more worried about chemicals.

[dinkolino2]

i was replying to your comment how you need to filter mouthss of rivers to keep stuff out of the ocean.. read whats been written. personaly, i prefer glass bottles. see no reason why they are forcing plastics

[ndyt]

dinkolino2, glass requires far more energy to make and, because it is heavier, more energy to ship. It is also dangerously sharp when it breaks.

[dinkolino2]

you can reuse glass a LOT of times. shipping is the least problem. but i agree that plastic is irreplaceable in many ways. it should just be burned properly or recycled.. one could ofcourse use less of it. its so cheap that its "expensive"  to recycle.. nayway, thats not what i was arguing in the first place :)

[ndyt]

dinkolino2, you have to heat it to about 1500 degrees, that takes a ton of energy. If you want to recycle, use steel, it is the most recycled material because it is easy to filter trash with a magnet. When I was a kid all, all drink bottles were glass and the store would pay you 5 cents for a returned empty. You couldn't go barefoot in lakes and rivers because you would step on a broken bottle. Broken glass was everywhere.

[dinkolino2]

that has less to do with glass as such and more with the culture of the people.. beer, vine, and a lot of other things are still in glass and u dont see glass everywhere.. the same way you would see plastic bottles in lakes and rivers. wouldnt want to go to a lake like that either. i know you have to heat it a lot (dont know hich degrees are these, i presume fahrenheit?). whats your point in the end :)?

[heartslord]

I had hoped to see the scope of the problem with video of the 2x Texas sized ocean dump however only one closeup of a 2 foot large area and a coupla shots of lone plastic bags. Why would they not show this huge behemoth from the air or even a horizon type shot? Huh!

Anyway, doesn't matter whether it's biodegradable if you have it properly disposed of, then it goes to the recycler or into the landfill, where there is not even air to biodegrade things and fifty years later it's like new.

[perkywa07]

You should see the beaches here in Washington State. In the 1970's I could go to beautiful Neah Bay and collect glass floats from Japanese fishing nets...now those beaches are wall to wall plastic bottles...literally MILLIONS of them. They are what sluffs off the Plastic Island in the Pacific and then the currents wash them up on the beaches in Canada and the Olympic Peninsula.

Thanks Plastic Industry.

[SustainableChoice]

This is crazy! I agree totally with so many people on here; we all need to do our part and we can start by not buying nondegradeable plastic products (although I'm not so sure there is such a thing). We started by vowing not to buy any plastic water bottles anymore. We bought all stainless steel ones for the family. There are lots of good ones out there, but we found the best (for quality, price & design) to be "FOF Bottles". We love them. We all need to do our own little part to clean this up!!

[motorolarules]

I like the ending. It reminds me that we are arrogant to think we can destroy the earth. We can only destroy ourselves, the earth will be just fine. And we can actually fix something we have been destroying if we change something, like an attitude.

[ladyinblacklace]

Interesting...

[JoeyVegas775]

Its up to us to contact local and National press to raise attention to this wrong use of plastics etc...

Email Press, PBS, Nova, this youtube short.

Take action!!!

[sanfred2]

charles moore is truly one of those that cares.he uses his own money to clean up what he can in the pacific.we can help by not buying nondegradeable plastic products or at least minimize what we use .God bless this man.

[murderxmexprettyx]

i find it sickening that this cause is such a threat to us yet no one seems to care. People are only worried about the problems that are directly effecting them. i hope these people are the first to eat the plastic.

[thekillerbee123]

frightening!

[wewmole32]

why dont we send all our waste into the sun?, costs be damned!

[Energyium]

soon we will be eating plastic

what a world

[DirectKing]

dang. This is some serious stuff.

[drumminman49]

Every piece of plastic manufactured will remain here on earth FOREVER!!!!!!

[jonmmadison]

it wasn't terribly clear how the ocean can get rid of the plastic. they talked about the UV and sea waves contributing to breaking it down further, but it wasn't clear on whether or not its possible for plastic to ever be dissolved or removed from the ecosystem (from what i understand the answer is "not in a few lifetimes").

would like to see more on this.