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One Response to “Floating toxic plastic garbage island twice the size of Texas - Boing Boing”

1. C. L. Vaughn Says:
   March 13th, 2008 at 7:33 am

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   In 1997, Charles Moore and his crew were returning from competing in the Los Angeles-to-Hawaii sailing race known as the Transpac. Even though they had been sailing for days in one of the most desolate areas of the Pacific Ocean, they found that human contaminates were a common sight.

   This brought on the discovery of what is now called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of the Pacific roughly twice the size of Texas. Plastic flotsam is getting caught in the Northern Pacific Gyre and is quickly becoming an environmental disaster as it is continuously growing.

   … Enter Jack Regal, captain of the Greenpeace ship Sea-angel. In this short story Captain Regal, with the help of a volunteer diver, bring home the environmental impact to a guest reporter hoping to write a front page story. Using the dialog between Captain Regal and Hawaiian Gazette reporter Miguel Dragos, you’ll learn about the impacts of this flotsam and what we should do to help battle the threat.

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Arthur Webster   Just plain honesty Ecological disasters are all around us and they start in such innocuous ways. Free plastic carrier bags at shops and supermarkets that get thrown away but take thousands of years to decompose. "Disposable" - a blatant lie in any description - babies nappies (diapers) that will not decompose at all but which are sold in huge bales wrapped in plastic that also does not decompose. Plastic containers that not only don't decompose quickly but are invariably disposed of with their tops on so that they don't even get compressed. Used cooking oil is poured by the millions of gallons into the drains of towns and cities by housewives who have no other simple way of disposing of it. The oceans are looked at as bottomless pits in which all and sundry can be disposed of with impunity. Our rivers, streams and oceans are becoming saturated with the hormones ingested in huge quantities by fertile women to prevent conception with some noticeable effects on wild life. (I wonder if the degree of excretion would indicate an over-prescription?) Huge areas of concrete are being laid that create heat sinks and prevent rainwater from soaking down to the aquifers. I could go on but the problem is that human beings are the most prolific despoilers of this planet and they appear to be set upon an insane course of self destruction. Until we abandon the cult of the individual and acknowledge our collective culpability, nothing will change. Mar 14th 2008 06:19

Beth Schmillen    As usual, you old Coot, you covered all of the ecological disasters that generally come to mind. It has happened just like many were saying it would and many were trying so hard to prevent. There just are too many consumers in the countries like the USA, EU states and others that have the disposable lifestyle now. I used cloth nappies on my babies (most of the time!) But the disposable then were more of a bother than any help!! Now the disposables are indespensible for young mothers because they can't afford the water bill to wash their own and the electric.... you'd think it'd be cheaper? maybe it still is but not by much but they don't realize how much water it takes to produce the products they use. I think the problem is with the ability to recycle and that the responsibility lies with the provider of goods and services... if it's mandated by law then there will be change. or will the masses rise up and refuse to create the refuse (are those spelled the same?) and refuse to create the refuse that putrifies our home planet? Mar 15th 2008 00:03