Ocean Flotsam
It doesn’t even sound like it should refer to something real, does it? But it IS real - very real - and out of sight may be out of mind, but it’s nowhere near Gone.
When a cargo ship loses a container of Nike shoes, they’ll float around the Pacific for years before landing on the shores of the Pacific Northwest. Plastic bags aren’t quite as boyant though. They’re more likely to make mayhem and kill essential marine life. There’s a literal floating island sitting out there in the middle of the Pacific, with everything from running shoes to entire sections of a ship. Have a look at the chart; click on the link below for details.
VISIT: Plastic, Trashing the Oceans
How doable is it to start using ships that were used for waling, now be put to use for gathering this large amounts of plastic? And would this than be economical for them to be recycled on land? TrinityRoy Amsterdam
Hello, Roy. That’d be a great idea, using the whaling ships. Unfortunately, Japan is still using them to hunt and kill whales and dolphins, claiming (in english) that they are “Research” vessels, to get around the treaty against whaling.
The area we’re talking about is massive. Imagine sweeping every part of the land from Amsterdam to include all of Poland, and down to the south of France. This is the sort of area that is being covered by the plastic. It will be a huge task… but it must be undertaken.
Some recycling may be done there, but it’s not so wise to be smelling everything up in the area we’re trying to clean and protect, so Im guessing it’s best to simply pull it back to land, recycle what we can and cube up the rest where it can more safely be dispensed of.
Thank you for your thoughts.
Totally fabricated lie! There is no garbage heap in the Ocean. You people are insane and are just creating this stuff to make money! $$$$$$ Oh, yes, another example of crap science and suckers who send money to these organizations! And now you sensor it out…LOL!
I ain’t not sensoring you JL!
JL you are wrong, this is really happening, and now is too late to try and save the world from the changes that we are seeing now…
Never Too Late Gentlemen. All we have to do is unite and fix it. All we have to do is not only want to, but start doing it… And this is just a small problem we’re talking about here, if to consider all the crap happening in the rest of the world. I have couple of thoughts and I hope that you do as well, so we could unite and do something about it one day soon.
PLUR
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I live in the Pacific and I know many fishermen who have seen this water dump so I have stopped using plastic and use cloth bags. Plastic bags are made out of petroleum products thats why there’s opposition to banning them…..avarice and greed…..DMZ (Debra Meli Z the true demilitarization)