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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.

 
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Oceanographers are claiming that there is a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Hawaii. Dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the heap of debris is said to weigh around 3.5 million tons and consists of about 80 percent plastic garbage. Supposedly most of the non-biodegradable trash that ends up in the oceans are sucked into this area by a combination of wind and waves, making the trash heap grow with each passing year. Even worse, there is nothing we can do to remove the trash as no single country will take responsibility for it and the clean up would take an international effort which would cost billions of dollars. So stop throwing your plastic crap in the ocean, okay?

[link to www.sfgate.com]
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11/10/2007 11:28 PM
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Now that is just sad.

bump

For environmental awareness.
Rarrgh!
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11/10/2007 11:32 PM
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Now that is just sad.

bump

For environmental awareness.
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I agree.

I never knew that that was out there.
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Someone will figure out a way to make money off all that free plastic.
"Everybody lies."
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11/10/2007 11:38 PM
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
if we cant get someone to use seawater, sunshine and the plastic to make recycled building blocks - then chemists aint worthy of the name!
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
if we cant get someone to use seawater, sunshine and the plastic to make recycled building blocks - then chemists aint worthy of the name!
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I'm sure we'll excavate all the big land fills and trawl for oceanic garbage once oil gets really scarce, but until then its a question of economics.
Rarrgh!
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11/10/2007 11:58 PM
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Very odd that no pix were included with the story. Never heard of this and have never seen pix. If this story is true, why haven't we seen pix?
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11/10/2007 11:59 PM
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
we deserve what we will soon get. Karma.
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
I KEEP TELLIN YA.....

SO DOOOOOOOMED!!!
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Very odd that no pix were included with the story. Never heard of this and have never seen pix. If this story is true, why haven't we seen pix?
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just sayin........
um...even though I'm not sure what links are not cool to post or not.....I just did a google search and here are pictures:
[link to www.theiff.org]
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Turn all the garbage into oil.
THERMAL DEPOLYMERIZATION
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Very odd that no pix were included with the story. Never heard of this and have never seen pix. If this story is true, why haven't we seen pix?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 324729



North Pacific Gyre
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The centre of the North Pacific Gyre is relatively stationary region of the Pacific Ocean (the area it occupies is often referred to as the horse latitudes) and the circular rotation around it draws waste material in. This has led to the accumulation of flotsam and other debris in huge floating 'clouds' of waste which have taken on informal names, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex. While historically this debris has biodegraded, the gyre is now accumulating vast quantities of plastic and marine debris.


Flotsam and jetsam
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[link to www.naturalhistorymag.com]
Bottle caps and other plastic objects are visible inside the decomposed carcass of this Laysan albatoss on Kure Atoll, which lies in a remote and virtually uninhabited region of the North Pacific. The bird probably mistook the plastics for food and ingested them while foraging.
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Very odd that no pix were included with the story. Never heard of this and have never seen pix. If this story is true, why haven't we seen pix?



just sayin........
um...even though I'm not sure what links are not cool to post or not.....I just did a google search and here are pictures:
[link to www.theiff.org]
 Quoting: OneAngryMom



we are such slobs
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dont worry man david will fix it by making y'all cave men again
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
I smell a "Global Garbage tax.." scheming
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I smell a "Global Garbage tax.." scheming
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They are trying to save the globe from all us pigs
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Turn all the garbage into oil.
THERMAL DEPOLYMERIZATION
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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 320973

Now create an autonomous seabot that metabolizes it and use it for fuel...
"And though I believe in the ineffable glory of God, and though I might have experienced the undeniable reality of the Deity, and though I may know the secrets of the ages, these do not fulfill the Love in my heart. But to Change and Be and Do and dissolve both the subject of my person and the object of my God into the fluency of Empirical Providence. The Way, the Truth, and the Life."
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
satellite piccy of the mess (it's that big green swirly-vortex): [link to ecopicoftheday.files.wordpress.com]
Water always wins. :sun:
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Re: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch..a heap of garbage twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.
Here we are 7 years later... And now look at where we are.

Thread: Great Pacific Garbage Patch Continues to Grow !!!!!!!As large as the US (Page 3)





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