Plastics, like diamonds, are forever. Plastic floating in the ocean is the number one source of pollution of the world ocean, and 80% of marine debris comes from urban run-off. The problem is many ...
Plastics, like diamonds, are forever. Plastic floating in the ocean is the number one source of pollution of the world ocean, and 80% of marine debris comes from urban run-off. The problem is many marine birds and fish confuse floating plastic particles with food. Plastic does not biodegrade, it photo-degrades, or slowly breaks into smaller and smaller pieces, but still remains a polymer. And plastic has been proven to absorb toxins up to one million times background levels in ambient seawater, making the floating plastic a defacto poison pill. Because of their buoyancy and persistance, most of the debris that either entangles sea creatures or found in their stomachs, is made of plastic. The groundbreaking research has been conducted by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, aboard the ORV Alguita under the direction of Captain Chales Moore. Please visit www.algalita.org or www.plasticdebris.org for detailed information. Produced and filmed by Bill Macdonald
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It pisses me off that the USA is one of the biggest, if not the single biggest contributor to the myriad of problems plauging the environment. It gives all of us Americans a bad name when, in the end, the people we elect don't do anything about it.
Yup and now we open another noxious oil spilling rig in VA for a drill baby drill bullshit rhetoric to keep the rich, rich and the poor, well poor. These people who run this country do not give one shit about the environment, only act like they do to gain more revenue off the stupid sheeple.
Yet another apocalyptic by-product of the Oil Industry, whos only reason for being is to their profits made from filling the sky with climate changing smoke and smothering the Planet in plastic. This perverted irresponsibility having made them the richest companies in all of human history.
Outstanding video! The issue is very complicated. We need plastics: catheters, hospital supplies, on our vehicles, etc. HOWEVER, we do not need plastic bags,tons and tons or plastic bottles, etc. I remember back in the day when coke came in a glass bottle and we recycled them. Perhaps, going back to a simpler way of life would be better. Human corruption and greed accounts for most of this waste of epic proportion. We are not going to make any headway without continued studies. Island Bounty, SA
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This perverted irresponsibility having made them the richest companies in all of human history.
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