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The Pacific Garbage Patch

That article is full of shit.
No one is guiltless when it comes to the Pacific Garbage Patch - if you consume and discard goods, you are responsible for some portion of the plastic that is ending up in the ocean, even if you live hundreds of miles from the seaside. All rivers lead to the sea, as they say. Trash that ends up in a stream in the middle of the US can end up in the ocean and, with the help of ocean currents, find itself in the middle of a trash vortex.
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I throw my trash in the garbage can. I'm guiltless as i don't throw my trash in rivers or on the side of the road. It's just another alarmists piece trying to force their beliefs in how we should live our lives.
 
JeffreyLebowski said:
It's just another alarmists piece trying to force their beliefs in how we should live our lives.
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have you actually SEEN the pictures?

how is that alarmist?

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JeffreyLebowski said:
That article is full of shit.

I throw my trash in the garbage can. I'm guiltless as i don't throw my trash in rivers or on the side of the road. It's just another alarmists piece trying to force their beliefs in how we should live our lives.
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I was going to post this.

It's the same argument I have against 5c charges for plastic bags. People say they are a huge source of litter, but all of mine end up in the trash or recycled...
 
JeffreyLebowski said:
That article is full of shit.

I throw my trash in the garbage can. I'm guiltless as i don't throw my trash in rivers or on the side of the road. It's just another alarmists piece trying to force their beliefs in how we should live our lives.
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When I volunteer for save our shores it is really disgusting what you pick up off the beach that has washed up. Ridiculous amounts of plastics, especially the small stuff which is the worst part. Animals eat it because it looks like their food then they get all fucked up with it. It doesn't seem so hard to not use so much plastic. Recycling it is useless too, barely any of it actually gets recycled. Most of it just ends up getting sent to countries with little to no environmental regulation where they probably just dump it in the ocean.
 
JeffreyLebowski said:
That article is full of shit.

I throw my trash in the garbage can. I'm guiltless as i don't throw my trash in rivers or on the side of the road. It's just another alarmists piece trying to force their beliefs in how we should live our lives.
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I shouldn't have picked this article to post. I agree. I saw the "alarmist" propganda in it too... there are more "news" type articles I should have picked.
 
Ns1 said:
sorry at work, my GoogleFu skills need more time.
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I've seen video of this supposed garbabge patch and I still stand by what I said. Don't blame me or anyone else for this issue that has nothing to do with it. The majority of the crap out there is coming from China, and undeveloped countries. Let's not also forget that mother nature is to blame for it as well. The Indonesian Earthquake/Tsunami of 06 basically took all the trash from several large cities and pulled it into the ocean.

So I blame Mother Earth.
 
MrPickins said:
I was going to post this.

It's the same argument I have against 5c charges for plastic bags. People say they are a huge source of litter, but all of mine end up in the trash or recycled...
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I think you're not processing the fundamental reality that your trash = litter.

Just because you stop seeing it, doesn't mean it isn't sitting, or floating, in a gigantic pile somewhere.

There is also no guarantee that what you send out in the recycle been is ever recycled. It seems a lot of people don't really know how to separate their recycleables, or simply toss things in the bin that can't be recycled, so they are, in turn, processed elsewhere.

Your trash simply doesn't cease to exist the moment it leaves your property.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

When you read the more "detailed" and less "alarmist" definition of what it is, it techincally isn't some HUGE FLOATING MASS of garbage (though I'd imagine there could be some out there that tend to clump together.

The "patch" is really defined as a large area of the North Pacific where due to ocean gyres the concentration(s) of flaoting, and land-fallen (is that a word?) garbage is WY above what is normal... ah hell the wiki describes it way better.

Edit: Thus making NS1's picture likely a true depiction of a beach in the middle of this "patch"
 
I was reading about this in one of my reef magazines. Apparently some of the plastics are breaking down into such small pieces, it is affecting the corals and other inverts that eat microscopic organisms.
 
Not sure if this is "oceanic" enough for you naysayers, but here's some trash in the water, if that's what you want. Fact is, I'd imagine that pics are hard to come by, b/c it seems a lot of you are expecting some Brazil-sized atoll floating around in the ocean, but that's not what is going on. The Ocean currents simply collect the garbage, which covers a massive swaft of ocean in large patches, some small patches, some continuous, but much of it isn't.

The description of the garbage patch is essentially labeling the ocean gyre, the amount of ocean surface area that is capable of trapping large amounts of trash due to various currents meeting in this region, which it has done. Pretty much all oceanic gyres are trapping trash as well; it's just that the pacific patch is the largest.

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