Floating Island Of Trash
- Posted by: Andrew Price
- on October 23, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Apparently there’s an island made of plastic bags floating in the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii. It’s not hard to believe; we use 60,000 of them every five seconds.For a second we thought “Oh, they’re all in one place. Well that’ll make them easy to clean up.” Then we read that the island is twice the size of Texas.
It’s unbelievable that you can’t find a picture of this. Greenpeace does, however, have an animation that shows how currents end up concentrating ocean trash in one place.
So for the zillionth time: eschew plastic for something reusable.
Via PSFK.
DISCUSSION: 4 Comments
I have a feeling there are no cmments yet becuse we’re stunned at the atrocity we’ve created. Well, I’ll bet we can create something to fix it, too. What about a filter inserted in the middle of the gyre to catch the tiny floaters. It probably wouldn’t be 100% effective, but we’ve got to try.
It seems Gaia has a way of concentrating the trash accumulated by one of her sub-species. She may find an intelligent way of disposing of it – or disposing of all of us allegedly homo sapiens.sf@miracleread.com
Back during the depression F.D.R. created jobs to put people back to work and renew the country. Would it not be possible now in this stagnant economy to put people to work; you know making a paycheck to support themselves and their family’s.
Its worked in construction to throw more manpower and at the same time ideas to fix the problems.
Why does it have to be just college graduates doing the work.
I have been an industrial electrician for 20 years and find myself out of work.
Electricians have to solve problems everyday on jobsites, so why not while trying to save the planet.
1 more comment on what I just stated. As an electrician I traveled all over the country for work. I now have a passport, willing to travel the globe to help.
john.j.mcstay.iv@gmail.com