Plastic Ocean. Do you have any comment on this.?

Question

http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/travel-leisure/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we.shtml

Answer 1

I've gone across the pacific 16 times and the atlantic 6 on ships and have never seen these places.   Luckily I've noticed the Atlantic is getting a little cleaner over the last 15 years.

Answer 2

If they know where this mess is, then the Navy ought to send ships to net/capture and recycle as much as possible.  Everyone would benefit form that.  Knowing that it is there and doing nothing about it, is just plain dumb.

Answer 3

Very depressing, we are such a disposable society every time something breaks like my printer I am very aware of the amount of garage it causes. But it is not cost effective to get things fixed, we need to change!

Answer 4

Utterly disgusting but humans are not known for our forethought...

Here is another 12 part web series about the "Garbage Island" in the North Pacific.

http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=148530850...

I've heard commentary that stated that plastic unless chemically altered or burned, never will go away. It will just get smaller, microscopic in some cases.

Think of this: Some researchers and scientists predict that plastic in the oceans will be broken down to microscopic particles but never reduced into the component elements. This micro-plastic will eventually become a unintentional addition (needless but not toxic) to many life forms on the planet. Including us. Our bones, bloodstream, possibly our very cells impregnated with plastic and not in a cool cyber-punk sort of way either!

Imagine the surprise of an alien race who comes to Earth long after the humans are gone and tries to explain the obviously synthetic matter in most living and some of fossilized creatures they find.

Creepy at best, disturbing at the least.

Answer 5

We ought to clean it up.  If we could load all that garbage on ships, we could probably recycle lots of it.  The Trash Business is pretty big these days, as far as recycling metals goes, at least.  We could start picking through all this, and either make it into fresh plastic, or maybe use some chemistry to break the bonds that make it plastic.

I may be a skeptic to the Human Causes of Global Warming, but we don't need a worthless trash-heap polluting everyones biology!