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Trash in ocean
#1
Posted 02 August 2013 - 02:53 AM
#3
Posted 08 April 2014 - 04:10 AM
They used to say the trash gyre was the size of Texas but in reality there are up to 5 now in various oceans and seas.
Via On Earth-
http://www.onearth.o...-its-lost-trash
#4
Posted 18 August 2014 - 08:18 PM
#5
Posted 19 August 2014 - 12:21 PM
SheforACT, on 18 August 2014 - 08:18 PM, said:
Cruise liners, military ships, fishing boats all add to the mix.
This particular image (from Google images) was deliberate and done by some soulless, heartless, demented,
sick,
![:sick:](http://www.altenergyshift.com/public/style_emoticons/default/sick.png)
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#6
Posted 19 August 2014 - 03:29 PM
Shortpoet-GTD, on 19 August 2014 - 12:21 PM, said:
Cruise liners, military ships, fishing boats all add to the mix.
This particular image (from Google images) was deliberate and done by some soulless, heartless, demented,
sick, thug with no conscience, and no love for anything or anyone. Heartbreaking to see it.
I agree, so heartbreaking. :( People who did this have no heart and their conscience is as little as a tiny particle in the air. :( I wonder if they ever think of their families and children when they did this?
#7
Posted 20 August 2014 - 05:35 AM
Fyi-(a fair amount of unnecessary vulgar language)
But this sentence stood out-
“We’re adrift on the rapids of consumption.”
https://medium.com/m...ace-b17eebd6d54
#8
Posted 18 September 2014 - 05:22 AM
And big corporations are eliminating polluting items from their products.
Progress is being made. These folks are stepping up. Are you?
Via Grist-
http://grist.org/liv...ur-ocean-blues/
#9
Posted 04 November 2015 - 07:32 PM
The ignorance of humankind...
#10
Posted 06 November 2015 - 04:17 PM
naesonun, on 04 November 2015 - 07:32 PM, said:
The ignorance of humankind...
It's easy to recycle and we all use plastic; 95% of the products we buy come in a plastic container. Rinse (while
your doing the dishes to not waste water on them; or stick in dishwasher with a load) and toss in a recycle bin.
Many cities now have curbside pickup too.
Cardboard and paper is an essential product we should all recycle because of the fire season wiping out
out forests (and idiots clear cutting for palm oil-chocolate & other candies.)
Using reusable bags for groceries instead of the one time use bags. Some cities are charging .05 a bag
now. Excellent.
I have several mesh bags that I put my produce in rather than those *&^%$% produce bags.
Several years ago, before the reusable bags caught on, I put my bags on the conveyor belt for the cashier
to use.
She stuffed them in a plastic bag.
After a few well chosen words, I told her to put my groceries IN the bags not to bag the bags.
(She may have heard my mumbling under my breath the word Dolt- but who cares?)
![:tongue:](http://www.altenergyshift.com/public/style_emoticons/default/tongue.png)
Needless to say, ever since; I go through the self checkout.
When they get too old and raggedy to salvage, I cut them up for cleaning rags.
#11
Posted 11 December 2015 - 03:17 PM
They're making part of their shoes out of ocean plastic trash waste.
![:yahoo:](http://www.altenergyshift.com/public/style_emoticons/default/yahoo.gif)
Via Eco Watch-
http://ecowatch.com/...d-printed-shoe/
#12
Posted 21 December 2016 - 10:51 PM
#13
Posted 26 December 2016 - 06:13 AM
From Treehugger article; 22 millions pounds enter the Great Lakes
every year!
http://www.treehugge...every-year.html
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