Captain Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

http://www.ted.com Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

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[tightnylonpants]

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!

[psilocybe4u]

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.

[TheGhettowhomper]

@tightnylonpants yeah but seriously fuck those pacficerers

[StephanieLisaTara]

HAIKU

I hatch! Crawl! And swim!

Oh how I love my sweet life,

Don't litter my home.

—A Green Sea Turtle

[demonorse]

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

[xenite125]

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....

[ktougodno]

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.

[bladerj]

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

[bladerj]

@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.

[faeryromance14]

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!