Garbage Island: An Ocean Full of Plastic (Part 1/3)

Vice sails to the North Pacific Gyre, collecting point for all of the ocean's flotsam and home of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: a mythical, Texas-sized island made entirely of our trash.

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Come aboard as we take a cruise to the Northern Gyre in the Pacific Ocean, a spot where currents spin and cycle, churning up tons of plastic into a giant pool of chemical soup, flecked with bits and whole chunks of refuse that cannot biodegrade.

Hosted by Thomas Morton | Originally aired in 2008 on http://VICE.com

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[ellen castrisos]

Camera guy and blonde bitch are obviously boning- couldn't keep the lens off her

[IDKmyBFFkongor]

The Helios soundtrack is the best part of this entire documentary.

[flamingbunny23]

All fuckin plastic man

[desktorp]

18:44 AWWWWWW YEEAAAAH

[Dacilar]

It's humans throwing it away and not recycling it which is the problem, not drinking from/using plastic containers.

[Ben Matthews]

Anything can be a catalyst for life. How do you think life evolved to survive on underwater magma vents under extreme pressure and extremely high temperatures? If life can evolve to survive there then I'm sure it can evolve to live on plastic. But yeah I do agree with the point of the video as in its generally a bad idea, life could take centuries or longer to evolve too and many species may disappear.

[GroupRecon]

you are one of em/ us

[Mitch C]

Were they not loading the same type of plastic containers at 6:45 for their water that creates this mess?

[Nashty Charles]

he says "fuck" too much to have credibility

[Gustav Keskyla]

throw your garbage into the water so you can't see it when it drowns down, really smart indeed! Or just throw your garbage into the forests so you can't see it, then it's fine,.

[Hunter Mann]

Yes, but they are carefully targeting a specific market and demographic: the 16 to 26 year old hipsters. I'm twice that age and laugh when I think back on how "totally cool" we thought we were at that age, and how "old people"(over 30) we're not worth consideration or listening to. Wait until theses young hipsters are 45 and start getting their first junkmail from AARP... ha!!!

[Hunter Mann]

Dear Vice, While I really appreciate this series, I get the sense that some 20-year old intern is re-titling them when posting them to YouTube. This documentary is called Toxic Garbage Island, but somehow the intern chose to insult the filmmaker's hundreds of hours spent making this film, by simply taking 5 seconds to re-title it to meet their own greedy wants or ego needs. Please stop letting these college kids dumb-down important films. They are clueless how much work this film took to make.