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- corbettkroehler, on 07/01/2008, -3/+22Everyone needs to know about this. Naturally, Americans contribute a great deal to this but the problem truly is global.
- sustainablogger, on 07/01/2008, -2/+15This is a great story... and a really creative form of activism.
- polychrome, on 07/02/2008, -2/+12From the article:
"Worse still, the floating dump is steadily growing and threatening every level of the food chain … yes, all the way up to humans."
Years and years ago, I fretted about all the garbage - where is it going? Well here is one place much of it ended up.
I may have said this before, but the concept of "away" in the term "to throw away" is misleading to say the least - mrASSMAN, on 07/02/2008, -1/+10Eventually the humans solved the problem by launching the enormous ball of garbage into space but it eventually orbited back to Earth 1000 years later and was discovered by Professor Farnsworth's new Smelloscope invention and humanity was saved for another millennium.
- ZER0JACK, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7VBS has already done a twelve part documentary on this. Check it out.
http://www.vbs.tv/shows/toxic/garbage-island/ - element219, on 07/02/2008, -1/+7I agree, great article. Have you seen the photos of Greenpeace staffers diving in the floating trash with signs saying "Is This Yours?" - I think they even found an old washing machine.
- bxblox, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6Carlin - plastic: http://youtube.com/watch?v=NBRquiS1pis
- bundwallah, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5I've read a few articles on this but haven't seen one photo of this "massive pile of garbage". Anyone have a link to a photo or two?
- Tyrghast, on 07/02/2008, -1/+6Pat yourselves on the back consumers. The fish have been ***** with us for too long, about time we get our revenge.
- poiuytrewq44, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5In before conspiracy theorists claiming that the earth is fine, that environmentalism is one big scam, recycling is worse than throwing away, and that the lack of harm and space for landfills is a myth.
- davidryal, on 07/02/2008, -2/+6let it solidify and build a bunch of cities on it.
- xGORDOx, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3Maybe now we can get real pictures of the "5 million square miles" of trash that is "twice as large as the Continental U.S."
- Rapter09, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3I have a hard time believing there's an island of garbage that's twice the size of the continental United States when there's not - to my knowledge - been one documented photo of it. Not saying the garbage is not a problem, but somebody's got to be exaggerating just a *little*
- lotonah, on 07/02/2008, -5/+8
***** this. I've read a dozen of these articles now without a SINGLE REAL PHOTO. The only photos that I've seen look really fake, piles of garbage on the beach, not in the water. If the garbage had actually been in the water, it'd be mixed with stuff like seaweed, which none of the photos I've seen have. At all.
I have no doubt that there's a lot of garbage in the ocean, but I think this big island of garbage that these articles alude to belong in the same category as unicorns and magical fairies. - mttyd, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3Why doesn't someone go out there and claim it all? Someone should be able to recycle all that stuff into something or convert it to fuel...
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2I thought this was going to be an early negative review for the soon to be released "Journey to the center of the earth" remake.
- recycleraccoon, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Here is a great short video on YouTube about the issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnUjTHB1lvM
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http://jeniya.info - reisrocks, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2Sounds courageous.. and pretty darn dangerous too.
Personally I'm getting pissed with my local businesses, who are in fact big chains, because of the amount of plastic used to, say, wrap my lunch.
It's about time we started boycotting these companies, and seeking out for alternatives. - polychrome, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2I love Greenpeace
- kyletehgreat, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Dugg for 'nurdles'
- dreesemonkey, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Save yourself the trip, I've already heard about it.
- khouros, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Actually, a group of 10,000 prominent scientists recently signed a petition stating basically that the cause of the trash accumulation is caused by a sun which is producing 28% more energy than normal. This is just a money-making scam by the government to increase taxes and rob us of our right to possess large caches of fully-automatic weapons.
- jellydoughnut21, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2I've been hearing about this for a while now, and it really is a shame and something needs to be done, however I think that a lot more attention could be drawn to this issue if there were high profile pictures of it for people to see with their own eyes. I know I haven't seen any really good (?) pictures of it, I'm probably just not looking hard enough. I know it's all in the documentary, but a lot of people aren't going to sit through the whole thing just to realize the scope of this whole thing.
- biogears, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2This garbage island is starting to look more and more like a candidate to replace man-made global warming when that peters out in a few years.
- greenehawke, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I agree the photos will help people believe what they are saying... Yet. Thor Heyerdahl documented this process and so did Jacque Cousteau... so HOW many more times do we need to DOCUMENT before people believe?
I did look at the VBS.TV link above. Yes, aside from some not so nice ads on their page, they did their own documenting of the garbage and showing the flow... now we know where to look in the ocean from the air.
or satelite. - lopla, on 07/02/2008, -3/+3This garbage talk is more Libstain propaganda as usual. The impact of the garbage is not altering the sea, food chain or human health. All parameters questioned have been proven by plastics industry scientists as parameters that have cycled like this for 1,000's of years. wake up dooshbags.
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -4/+4buried for "yet another floating plastic island the size of the moon"
- intelno001, on 07/03/2008, -0/+0Twice the size of the continental US? First of all, no single mass that large would float. It would have to have *some* depth to it as well, which would mean mountains of trash under the sea. I have a hard time believing that all the trash that has ever been made in the last 100 years would create something like that. And since there are no pictures, or figures, or reputable environmental organizations measuring it, I'm afraid this REEKS of exaggeration and is detrimental to the overall environmental movement because the last thing we want is a credibility problem.
- eastwood24, on 07/02/2008, -2/+1another prothetic futurama moment!
- renemartini, on 07/02/2008, -2/+1This is very much true. We need to learn to repurpose stuff such as Jeans scraps makes paper (cleaner), old computers make new ones, avoid plastic trash bags for trash as they cause longer time for trash to decompose and donate old eletronics. Also most of the landfills are buried underneath golf resorts and the methane produced goes to factory for other uses. Not recycle but repurpose.
- soupdawg30, on 07/02/2008, -8/+2FAKE
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