Twice the size of texas

There's a floating garbage pile in the ocean between hawaii and san francisco that's twice the size of texas...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...SS6JS8RH0.DTL&hw=pacific+patch&sn=001&sc=1000

 

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

I enjoy the name they gave it....

it really isn't all that surprising... I'm actually surprised that it isn't bigger...

 

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/discarded-old-computer1.htm

 

glad i dont like to swim in that garbage pit they call an ocean or live anywhere near it for that matter...ewww

 

That's sad. I hate when even small bodies of water get polluted....I live along Lake Huron and our beach is completely disgusting. It is near to a large factory/plant, and the water collects everything. You can't even find a few feet to go wading - the water is thick with brown gunk. It doesn't even move, it just kind of wiggles a little like gelatin.

 

"Volunteers cleaned up bottles, and hundreds of pounds of other debris -- such as plastics, cans, fishing line, lead and spark plugs..."

What the hell......

 

it's going to take thousands and thousands of years to clean up what humans have done in just a century.

 

but what are we going to do when there's nowhere to put it anymore?

 

We're obviously doomed.

The octopi will be much more resourceful than us.

 

My city just recently opened a free recycling center. It is a small step, but I'm so happy to finally be able to recycle my milk cartons and shampoo bottles! It's wonderful not to have to throw it away and wonder where it will end up, like in that part of the ocean.

 

Throwing something away
is throwing it into the ocean, or the earth
it's sad but true

 

it's no wonder that whales are starting to commit suicide by jumping out of the ocean. i remember when i was living in rural alaska years ago, and i discovered there was a widespread practice of dumping garbage in the water. everybody who lived near the ocean...fishermen, loggers, towns, villages, lodges...was dumping their garbage on the water. they would take it out to a place where the current would take it away from where they lived and dump it...all of it. there was no effort whatsoever to protect the ocean from pollution. i remember the first time i saw it done, i was pretty shocked.

 

all i have to say to them is:
better you than me

lol they pwned themselves

 

we're all in this together.

 

I have a bumpersticker that says that Stalk.

 

nothing left to do but make toxic art
and die of cancer

 

i know, what the hell? Sparkplugs float? and get caught in things? how?

 

That certainly seems to be the additute that created this mess. ME,ME,ME fuck the rest. Anytime the economy must always inflate in a finite world to take care of the present there will always be assholes like yourself. Do the world a favour and don't have children.

 

honestly I think my generation is going to just barely slip by and pass our problems on to the next. Making us the last lucky ones lol
:cheers2:

 

I definitely do not feel lucky

 

well isn't that a mature, non ignorant way to look at things.