Comments on: Giant Trash Island

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By: grg

grg — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:30:54 +0000

It’s not really an island, but it is a really large area that’s pretty dense with floating plastic. also, a lot of the plastic is in really tiny pieces.

Here’s the article you need to read.

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Trashing-Oceans-Plastic4nov02.htm

By: Bradley James

Bradley James — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 04:13:51 +0000

It would seem that the majority of the respondents to this catastrophy in the making, are woefully misinformed in the concideration of the End Times scenario depicted in the Bible. Specifically, Revelation, chapter 8, verses 8 and 9, where it say's, "And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was csst into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died. And the third part of the ships were destroyed."
It has been reported that over 100 million gallons of oil a year is deposited into the Pacific annually. Surprisingly, about 67% of that is of a natural occurance. Oil bearing rock layers in the ocean! The other 33% is from tankers running aground and platform accidents.
Mixing the plastic island with the oil and a little spark from above and you've got the barbeque of all time. For further info, check out "Recipes For Lean Times".

By: Atlantic

Atlantic — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:26:49 +0000

Does anyone have the approximate coordinates of the Pacific Trash Vortex? I wonder if there could be a view of it in Google Earth.

By: rICHARD

rICHARD — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:57:25 +0000

This is a problem that i think should be more urgent than some blog subject

By: bob

bob — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:14:21 +0000

i want to see how big it gets

By: df

df — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:02:50 +0000

First off, the trash collected is not the size of Texas, the area it collects in is. Secondly, while I'm sure theres a fair amount of trash coming from north America, you can blame Los Angeles if you like, it's also been called, “the Asian Trash Trail and The Eastern Garbage Patch." Finally, trash collects in the Oceans all of the world, in this particular vortex, there is very little land for the trash to wash up on so it just collects and spins and doesn't GO anywhere.

I'm a HUGE opponent of any kind of litter, when I see people throw trash down I like to yell at them, "excuse me, you dropped something!" If they pretend like they can't hear me, I say it louder and louder until everybody else around can hear me, this always does the trick. I've also been known to get out of my car at stoplights to throw cigarette butts back into peoples cars.

So, I don't want anybody to think I'm justifying the trash floating in the oceans, I'm not, I just want people to have better information so they don't look quite so silly.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:00:46 +0000

It turns out, this trash is actually a field of debris. Not a floating island you or I could walk on. Seriously, we can't clean it up because it's too expensive. But we can stop using so much plastic.

See my blog at jamiesearth.blogspot.com for more details.

(PS I called Bull**** on this article too, that's why I looked more into it).

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:26:09 +0000

"There's nothing we can do about it now, except do no more harm."

A large-ish atom bomb, detonated in the middle, should disperse the trash nicely.

Since the thing is a vortex any radiation will eddy around and not escape - it's perfect!

By: Damon Gentry

Damon Gentry — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:54:05 +0000

I once saw a Penn and Teller episode of BullSh*t! where they stated that if all the landfills in the U.S. were condensed into a single landfill, it would fill 37 sqare miles, 200 feet deep and would last the U.S. for 100 years. I don't have the data to verity the claim, but their point was to highlight the exaggerated claims that we are running out of landfill space.

Another interesting tidbit regarding population explosion: Did you know that if you placed the entire population of the earth into the state of Texas, the population density would be less than that of New York City? I verified those facts with Wikipedia and with U.S. Geological data.