Our Oceans are Turning Into Plastic

re: Our Oceans are Turning Into Plastic

brazosdedios — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:35:07 GMT

Where are there pictures of these plastic stews in the ocean? I have searched but have not been able to find any that demonstrate the size. I think it would communicate a lot, as the saying goes, "A picture is worth a thousand words."

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patriot — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:17:29 GMT

Superstah has not been reading the facts correctly. There ARE at least five (5) areas in our oceans that are plastic sargasso seas. Most are many miles wide and there appears to be no avenue available to provide a cleanup therefore, the putrification and death of many species will not cease.

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trishaspring50 — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:48:50 GMT

Plastics and the phalhates that leach from them are creating sterility in men and women, Behavioral Problems, Diseases, Fragrance oils should be added to this list. They have up to 400 chemicals in fragrance. Look at the Lotions, Foods, Baby Bottles ect made and packaged in plastic. This is causing Endocrine Disruption, 7 times greater that the estrogen that we normal create.

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tragedyofcommons — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:26:54 GMT

Zeitgeist - The Movie (pre-release)

What does Christianity, 911 and the Federal Reserve have in common? This is the full Zeitgeist production (note: the opening 3 min has no video - just audio).

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=928518742089256264&hl=en

re: Our Oceans are Turning Into Plastic

HimandHer — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:03:55 GMT

so why doesn't someone DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT?!?!
We need government who isn't afraid to start BANNING things!
Someone has to start doing something right for a change, not for money, but because its right. Ban Plastic, Ban Styrofoam, Ban Wasteful Packaging, etc etc etc.. seems like a freakin' no brainer to me.

When are we going to wake up and stop being such sheep?! This is all of our planet, it doesn't belong to just a select few who seem to be making horrible decisions.

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shesallnatural — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:48:12 GMT

How ironic-- I have this article Dr. Mercola referrencing (from Best Life Magazine) sitting open on my kitchen table. The article came out 6 months ago and I can't throw the magazine away! (I mean "recycle" of course!) It's so depressing, it makes me want to commit suicide by choking myself on 6-pack rings.. Seriously, though, the article is very well written and it has been in the back of my mind all week. I am female, but I subscribe to "Best Life" and I think it is the BEST "lifestyle" magazine out there for men in their late 20's to 40's. I recommend it.

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Freedom — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:28:57 GMT

Do we have any satellite images of this Pacific Plast Stew..........surelly NASA must have taken some photos.......if so, can see them

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CLICKHEREx — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:38:08 GMT

In addition, the ultraviolet component of sunlight breaks down most plastics, formong harmful chemicals at their surfaces, which are easily dislodged, so, if you have any old plastic utensils or containers which have received considerable exposure to sunlight, it is best to dispose of them. You may be unaware that millions of tons of fly ash, the waste from burning coal in power stations, is dumped into the worlds oceans every year, decimating aquatic life. It could be converted into building bricks, with the addition of cement powder, and sold at a profit, in some countries, particularly to ecologically minded people, or to governments, to use in constructing public works/housing etc.

re: Our Oceans are Turning Into Plastic

bemmy — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:13:51 GMT

how can you all buy organic food and think you are so safe and doing better than everyone else,
the organic food is still in the polluted soil and getting the polluted rain water, no field is an anti pollution island

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re: Our Oceans are Turning Into Plastic

Rogway — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:26:53 GMT

My new recipe to protect your stomach against the comsumption of chemicals...10 plastic milk jugs, 20 plastic soda bottles, 60 plastic grocer bags, any extra junk plastic's you can find laying around will work fine. 1 bag baby carrots (for flavor) 2 cups soy milk (for color) 1 lb monosodium glutamate (for taste) 3 cups high fructose corn syrip (for thinning everything down) 8 oz. sodium benzoate (for presertive) just a pinch of any nuclear reactor waste (to bond everyting together) maybe two pinched might be needed. Feel free to add more stuff like this to your own taste and needs. Don't forget the gallon of kool-aid needed to wash it all down and the 4 cups of sugar for sweetner. Splenda or aspertame may be used for alternates, or all together. Preheat a heavily coated teflon cooker and spray heavily it with aluminum and mercury to make it slick. Add ingredients one at a time and stir-real easy- over medium to high heat. Bring to boil for one minute so everything is sure to be melted good. Remove from stove and let set until film covers top. Drink immediately. All of it. It will re-harden and coat all of your insides on the way down. From mouth to tale. Don't worry, from now on when you eat all of the chemically laden poisioness foods it will go straight through you, thus leaving you clean and refreshed inside. Just think, now you can sit on the pot and get rid of your lunch at the same time. No more acid reflux, constipation, heartburn, upset stomach, bloating, nausia ect. Try it, you'll love it.

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PepperR23 — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:04:06 GMT

I have just recently begun to carry canvas bags every time I go to the grocery store. Whole foods market takes 5 cents off of your register receipt for each bag that you bring from home. I find it very gratifying to know that I am doing something to cut down on both paper and plastic bags and encourage all of you in the Vital Votes Community to do the same. The more people seen carrying their groceries out to their cars in canvas bags or other suitable substitutes, the more likely the people observing this will follow suit. If every one in America tried something like this, imagine what an impact it would have on the environment!

re: Our Oceans are Turning Into Plastic

mmc88121 — Tue, 29 May 2007 19:23:44 GMT

THe size of the Pacific Garbage Patch boggles the mind, yet there are 5 other ones also. All about the same size. Like the article stated, just because there are no immediate side effects does not mean that an article is benign.

Mary

re: Our Oceans are Turning Into Plastic

Russ Bianchi — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:28:57 GMT

Plastic polymers, typically petro chemical in origin, are not only harmful to the environment and one's own health, but they are indeed creating non biodegradable CHERNOBYL, or Three Mile Island, conditions, as cited in this article...

Like Nuclear Slow Breeder Reactor Waste, that does not break down and remains DEADLY for thousands of years (if not available for Terrorist(s) access, to use for further harm in a dirty bomb) neither do these plastics go away.

If and when our civilization is dug up, perhaps one of the conclusions reached, by remaining evidence, will be we committed MASS suicide by the amount of toxins we produced across the board in our packaging, food, drug, beverage, genetic modification, poor energy choices, and cosmetic distribution chains.

Kool-Aid, In The Plastic Smiling Pitcher, Anyone?

re: Our Oceans are Turning Into Plastic

Josh Rubin — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:18:56 GMT

I find it quite disturbing that not only our land is getting eaten up by an overdose of houses, but now our oceans! If you come to SD, it is quite sad as well. There are days when it rains that they put up skull and bones signs signifying that the water is not swimmable and not safe to go into secondary to all the bacteria and sewage, yes sewage!! We also (just had 2 recently into lagoons that fun into the ocean) have frequent sewage pipes that breaks and TONS of sewage is dumped directly into the ocean. If we don't start caring for our ocean (which is the blood of the universe), they will just be one big toilet in the future.