Giant garbage patch floating in Pacific
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19 An enormous island of trash twice the size of Texas is floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii.
Chris Parry with the California Coastal Commission in San Francisco said the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, has been growing a brisk rate since the 1950s, The San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.
The trash stew is 80 percent plastic and weighs more than 3.5 million tons.
"At this point, cleaning it up isn't an option," Parry said. "It's just going to get bigger as our reliance on plastics continues."
Parry said using canvas bags to cart groceries instead of using plastic bags is a good first step to reducing reliance on plastics, the newspaper said. Copyright 2007 by UPI
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Giant garbage patch
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Michael ,
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:16:28 GMT
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Somewhere in the Pacific? Something the size of two Texas’s and they say somewhere? Is this writing by the say people who say Global Warming is caused by people? Anyone who has a brain and knows anything about the history of weather KNOWS it is a cycle the earth goes thru. Personally, I am more concerned with the shifting of the poles. (for those who never heard of this just look it up.)
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no-blame
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Luca ,
Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:37:11 GMT
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Following a similar mecchanism to the tragedy of the commons it is illogical in constructive discussion to allocate blame. We are increasingly managing our waste but accidents will always happen.
Re-use options would begin to turn this hazard into a resource. Build pontoons/platforms and/or floats for a offshore human settlement?
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how many ?
By:
cj ,
Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:42:50 GMT
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can you give me the exact number of animals die in water pollution.
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Wow
By:
Shocked ,
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:56:25 GMT
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People actually believe this? Does everyone who posts on this board wear tin-foil hats as well? A trash island twice the size of Texas would be simple to pinpoint, there is no explanation for the vague location "somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii". I hope this article is a joke.
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Giant garbage patch floating in Pacific
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Brian ,
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:26:17 GMT
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It would be interesting to find out where some of these plastics are coming from.
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Garbage Island
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SG ,
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:02:28 GMT
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This should be cleaned up and we are all to blame, especially everyone that has ignored this problem from the begining. This should be as important as global warming because without our oceans we will not survive. We should be funding cleaning up this mess. Why should we explore Mars or is that going to be the new dumping ground
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Trash in Pacific
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jennika wasilewsky ,
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:11:05 GMT
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Much of the trash is a result of careless littering. Litter in the streets eventually end up down the storm drain, that sends the litter to the water. Some cities have no street cleaners either. Americans need to learn to throw trash in the proper containers, it's easy, every time you gas up. Also, the gyms trash bins are overflowing with bottles. I worry about restaurants who sell bottled beer and wine. Don't get me started on Starbucks and milk bottles!!
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Exactly!
By:
joe blow ,
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:46:41 GMT
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Yes, why is is new story out and no images?? Your telling me we have no images but let's write a story up about it?? Come on!
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but then
By:
uhm ,
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:50:01 GMT
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if there's this great big island that's twice the size of Texas - then we should see it from space. in fact - how can such an article come without an image of this thing...
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garbage patch
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ddh ,
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:07:03 GMT
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what do you mean its too big to clean !
dumping in the oceans should be a crime to start with. even if its a billion tons its got to be dealt with, been there since the 1950's? My guess is ignoring it doesnt work, huh?
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garbage in the Pacific
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Sandra Weatherby ,
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:41:42 GMT
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can we not recycle this plastic ??? ya know it can be done...someone should be able to make a proffit from doing the right thing and taking this shamful pile of garbage out of the ocean...
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shame
By:
chatterbully ,
Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:41:56 GMT
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Shame on the human race; what about the machine that turns garbage into energy?
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