news.cnet.com — Sailing 4,000 miles on the Pacific Ocean made Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal sick. It wasn't waves that turned their stomachs, but the amount of plastic garbage they encountered on a voyage with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation earlier this year.
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Closed AccountJun 6, 2008
Because we have yet to see a f**king picture of it yet.
Closed AccountJun 6, 2008
A picture free story too, like all the other ones.
viclazloJun 6, 2008
PICs or GTFO
h3lxJun 6, 2008
There aren't any pictures of it because it doesn't f**king exist.
ryllharuJun 6, 2008
"Because the garbage is so small and scattered, clean-up is also incredibly difficult, without endangering sea life."Honestly, if it is such a gigantic problem, then maybe we *SHOULD* endanger sea life just so we can clean it up. Huge series of nets dumping the trash onto barges (sea life and all), bacteria to dissolve the plastic, whatever it takes. Once we're done, the sea life will come back eventually. But now there would be conservation efforts to prevent this problem from occuring again.But to stop bitching about it and actually do something about it might be too much for a lot of these self-proclaimed environmentalists.I'm getting sick of these articles that keep claiming this is such a huge problem without bothering to even *think* of a solution. Put up or shut up.
dtelepathyJun 12, 2008
Another website that is reporting the massive amounts of plastic / trash floating around in the ocean is vbs.tv (vice magazine's broadcasting system). The link to the mini documentary is: <a class="user" href="http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=1154&source=sc">http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=1154&source=sc</a>