Thread: Garbage Island

Quote: Originally Posted by CunningHamster No, I 'm confused as to why you would cite such a ridiculous crocumentary. Isn't there any video evidence that doesn't insult the intelligence of the viewer? I suggest you try again, but turn off your computer speaker and look at what is in front of you. What do you see in the shots of the ocean surface in both videos? A whole lot of water and the occaisional chunk or accumulation of...

Quote: Originally Posted by paperbackwriter ...You are apparently somewhat confused by what I actually wrote... No, I 'm confused as to why you would cite such a ridiculous crocumentary. Isn't there any video evidence that doesn't insult the intelligence of the viewer?

Interesting staff report. Alan Weisman talks about the huge Pacific Ocean debris field in his very good book, The World Without Us : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us I wonder if there couldn't be an internationally-funded garbage-scooping project someday. I suppose the recycling option wouldn't be cost-effective.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sparky812 Here's another documentary film being released featuring the gyre and plastic garbage. Addicted to Plastic Trailer I saw this at the Taos Film Festival last month, and I highly recommend it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Elendil's Heir I wonder if there couldn't be an internationally-funded garbage-scooping project someday. I suppose the recycling option wouldn't be cost-effective. I can't imagine the math would not be overwhelmingly against this. Not to mention the conservation implications of the amount of fuel you'd spend trying to cover every inch of many thousands of square miles. Also, heterogeneous...

Quote: Originally Posted by Huerta88 Not to get into GD territory, but am I the only one who suspects the phrase "garbage island" was not-unintentionally selected to stoke alarm about some foul mat of disgusting refuse literally choking the surface of a huge area of pristine tropical ocean? Because, rightly or wrongly (probably rightly, as a matter of handicapping) the people concerned with it didn't expect they could...

Delurking briefly to link to this chilling documentary about the garbage island .

Moderator's note: I've added a link in the OP, to the Staff Report in question. It's helpful to other readers, keeps us all on the same page, and saves searching time to provide such a link when you start a thread in ref to Cecil's column or a Staff Report.

Quote: Originally Posted by grue Delurking briefly to link to this chilling documentary about the garbage island . Here's another documentary film being released featuring the gyre and plastic garbage. Addicted to Plastic Trailer

OTOH, Thor Heyerdahl wrote in "The Ra Expiditions" about how they came upon plastic garbage and other debris every day crossing the Atlantic; this in the 70's, before ubiqutous plastic water bottles, 2-litre pop bottles, plastic shopping bags, six-pack rings and bubble-wrap. The disposable consumer culture had not yet permeated Africa, South America or even southern Europe the way it has today. So don't minimize the...