articles.latimes.com — At 1.2K lbs, the world's heaviest reptile is in such severe decline that it could become extinct in years. Not only is the Leatherback Turtle mistaking plastic sacks for jellyfish, but commercial development is encroaching on its nesting beaches; and it's getting caught in fishing gear. Now emergency protection is being sought for it + 5 others.
Apr 15, 2009 View in Crawl 4
mu0pApr 15, 2009
plastic bags are for douchebags. man up and use a real bag.
johnehubertzApr 17, 2009
Ummm It's global consumerism. Not plastic bags - deliberate, evil, nasty colonialist global corporate consumerism that was a direct-handoff from deliberate, evil, nasty colonialist European Christian genocidal maniacs.There is a trash vortex in the pacific the size of the USA.... and the CDC is now tracking the "baggie disease" where little bits of metal and plastic surface in lesions on human skin - something a buddy of mine has. He brought a matchbox near full of particles to me - he's always picking.I've looked at it with my Uncle's old binocular microscope and it is all just tiny wire and plastic bits.... all laced in with cell tissue and stiff because it ain't SUPPOSED TO BE INSIDE US.The people who have it collect it in baggies and go to the doc. It can get nasty - and a lot of folks have it. Check the CDC website they are looking for data... it is that or a biological dna implant from genetically modified production-cells (like the little ones that make special drugs etc).Unlikely - this stuff is trash. Tiny bits, trash - it photodegrades till the plankton absorb it. 3.5 billion tons I think was one estimate, 20 billion plus if you include the microparticles. WE ARE EATING OUR OWN NONBIODEGRADEABLE STUFF FOLKSOne sure way to lose the nice spot we have on the top of the food chain, is to BREAK THE CHAIN
americanteaMay 13, 2009
Use cotton re-usable bags for gods sake. Stores of all kinds should simply stop using the damned things along with paper bags.