Inside the Plastic Vortex

A groundbreaking Scripps voyage led by students helps define a rising environmental threat.

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[Scripps Institution of Oceanography]

Excited that this video was selected to show at the Fifth International Marine Debris Conference in Hawaii in March 2011!

[jenikaye98]

ENSO Plastics has an additive for plastic manufactures to add to their plastic making process that will render the plastic product biodegradable in landfills; as well as marine degradable. It's a step in the right direction!

[budroe1000]

i just dont understand why they didnt take a barge out their and clean some up instead of wasteing time seeing how bad it is

probably becuse that isnt as fun

[CriticizePerfection]

why are you so happy not great happy situation

[Johan Reistad]

How can this be commercial harvested this is one way of attacking the topic.

[MahPopemobile]

You're a fucking idiot

[johnny huff]

They talk like they're from that SNL skit "the Californians" did she say - "it's lok reallah sahd". Bet they jam the Dave Mathews Band, when they're heading back to shore after the day's catch (of plastic).

[cptnlaura]

recycle? people these days... too lazy to walk over to a recyling bin or a trash can :/

[Jay Case]

If we could engineer away to turn those plastic flakes into gasoline "The Market "would create a demand and that stuff would become a commodity and then the process would revers.

after all plastic is petroleum based.It is just a matter of perception

[Lost & Found Travel]

Humans can't even visualize numbers over a couple hundred. How will they even be able to feel responsible for something so abstract and "out of sight and mind" as this? The answer? Great videos like this to continue to drawing focus to it. Thank you.