The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Plastic trash has made its way to the Pacific Ocean and its collected in massive amounts out in the middle of a 10 million square mile area known as the Pacific Gyre (pronounced G-I-R-E) which is also known as "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch". The Gyre is a large clockwise spinning vortex that basically sucks everything into itself and because plastic is not biodegradable and cannot be broken down naturally it will just continue to circle the Gyre for decades maybe even centuries. This plastic soup is wreaking unimaginable havoc on the area's ecosystems. More than 1 million sea birds die from ingesting the plastic thinking that it's food. Turtles are choking on plastic shopping bags, which look amazingly like jelly fish, the main prey of turtles. The answer to stopping this madness is to STOP USING SO MUCH FUCKIN' PLASTIC. And for the plastic that you do use, try to recycle it or better yet, REUSE it!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• plastic
• pacific
• garbage patch
• dead seabird albatross
• choking turtles

[mildgraphics]

hemp plastic is biodegradable. 

[Nevsky100]

First of all instead of "don't use" you should say don't produce. Personally, I would take all of the world's leaders and force motherfuckers to eat all of that shit.

[nloc1929]

0:36 Looks shooped...

[djphilmore]

@mildgraphics tell that to the corporations

[vXPikaJewXv]

@rubnaus the problem is if any little bit of it is removed all of it will spread out and be even harder to contain. We screwed ourselves over by letting it be there in the first place. Unless we can find a way to pick it all up at once, its there for good

[HardforJesus]

Not as cool as clubbing baby seals to death, but still pretty awesome.

[Rockman1047]

@landsharked Mother nature can handle it

[marchels28]

o my god i even didnt know that exists,thats a ecologiscal desaster that needs to be delt with. right now i wish that oil would have never been found,it has only made our planet suffer.

[Bigdog6665]

H3h3h3. Idiot turtle eating our trash, what a moron.

[HannaTheMovieFTW]

@landsharked You know what they need to is, they need to gather it all up and then launch it out into space. Space is infinite so use that infinity to our advantage I say.

[Myworthlessaccount]

i have a plan stop buying bottled water

[ExtremeAnalDischarge]

@Lymeebinns It's not my screen name, it's my real name, so I am always offended when people use against me because I didn't choose it. I'm sorry the planet is dying, I had a solution that seems popular with everyone bar one group - get rid of Americans. They siphon off more than their fair share and, as we see from the video, don't have any concern for the consequences. The only reason you're having a go at me is - you have misinterpreted my comment and your ignorance got the better of you.