The oceans are big enough to look after themselves. Does washing my paint brush in the sink really make that much of a difference ?

Neptune said...

It covers 40% of our oceans! Anything we can do to get rid of it? Scooping it up seems quite a big job!

Twice the size of Texas isn't 40% of our oceans. Twice the size of Texas would be about the size of NSW. The oceans are a lot bigger than all of Australia times about 10 or more.

Nothing will be done about this until the rubbish becomes an economic resource. No one who has the money or power to do anything about it gives a sh!t about it right now.

Why is she yelling!!!!!!!!!!

Asians are by far the worst for chucking stuff in the ocean.. They are uneducated in regards to the damage it does, out of sight.. out of mind..

Seen it heaps in Indo..

Scotty88 said...

The oceans are big enough to look after themselves. Does washing my paint brush in the sink really make that much of a difference ?

That depends whether you are on the sewrage system or do have a septic tank

Neptune said...

I'm only quoting what it says in the video... 2:01

Well she contradicts herself within two minutes.

It's made of little tiny bits floating on and far below the surface, just scooping them up is not really possible.
The only hope is for the world to stop using plastic and eventually it will all sink to the bottom and get covered in sediment but of course that's not going to happen.
Any little plastic bit that falls on the ground will eventually end up in the ocean.
If they could just start using the plastic made from corn that biodegrades rapidly this problem could be solved.

a couple of years ago we were taking off from Lima Airport and it was hard not to notice that the big d10 dozers were pushing the garbage straight into the south pacific.
they had a large spit of rubbish about 500m out to sea,and that was far enough to catch the current travelling to the north andwest.right over the horizon,a thick line of garbage
if you drift on that current your next landfall is queensland.

^^^ so they are recycling.
That's nice.

where's WALL:E

In 10,000 years there will be a layer of plastic in the sediment. We will be known as "The Plastic People"

Neptune said...

Mobydisc said...

Neptune said...

It covers 40% of our oceans! Anything we can do to get rid of it? Scooping it up seems quite a big job!

Twice the size of Texas isn't 40% of our oceans. Twice the size of Texas would be about the size of NSW. The oceans are a lot bigger than all of Australia times about 10 or more.

Nothing will be done about this until the rubbish becomes an economic resource. No one who has the money or power to do anything about it gives a sh!t about it right now.

I'm only quoting what it says in the video... 2:01

It actually said the Pacific vortex was the size of twice that of Texas. It then said it was only one of 5 vortex's world wide and those combined together covered 40% of the ocean I have no idea if thats right but the above is what was quoted. Just wanted to correct Mobis coment

Scotty88 said...

Davage said...

Scotty88 said...

The oceans are big enough to look after themselves. Does washing my paint brush in the sink really make that much of a difference ?

That depends whether you are on the sewrage system or do have a septic tank

I live in the city and the sewage goes straight to the sewerage plant and is treated. My paint is removed before hitting the ocean.

Hey scotty
dont go crawling to the general boys now.

Don't want to minimise this disaster, but as the WP article states (with refs), as well as my kid's school research on this , the size of this thing is not as big as Texas. At least not the visible part that looks like a mountain of garbage.

The invisible (tiny bits) parts are 100% all over though.

Last time I accompanied the missus at a resort for a week, I got bored by day 1 and there was no decent windsurfing.
I resorted to getting garbage bags from the hotel and running up and down the coastline and filling the bags with plastic litter. Did that all week, at least it was exercise. Didn't make a dent of course.

Shame on litterers of all shapes and size and nationalities.

doggie said...

pierrec45 said...

Don't want to minimise this disaster, but as the WP article states (with refs), as well as my kid's school research on this , the size of this thing is not as big as Texas. At least not the visible part that looks like a mountain of garbage.

The invisible (tiny bits) parts are 100% all over though.

Last time I accompanied the missus at a resort for a week, I got bored by day 1 and there was no decent windsurfing.
I resorted to getting garbage bags from the hotel and running up and down the coastline and filling the bags with plastic litter. Did that all week, at least it was exercise. Didn't make a dent of course.

Shame on litterers of all shapes and size and nationalities.

I was in the Mentawis in 09 and place is amazing, but as pierrec45 said there was lots of plastic floating and on the beach. I guess it was from boats etc but it was gross. Most of us picked up random bits when we saw them and where we stayed had a great system of getting rubbish back to Padang but where does it go from there?!?

it goes to a tip, then a river,then the sea then washes up