Apr 22 2008
The Worlds Biggest Plastic Dump – An Earth Day Message
The Worlds Biggest Plastic Dump is not on land. It’s swirling around in the North Pacific!!!
I thought it was a joke, but it’s not. All the plastic we dump into the Pacific ocean or let flow there from our waste plants, cruise ships, garbage scows, ends up following one of four prevailing ocean currents and creates the enormous vortex of plastic.
It’s so big, it can’t be cleaned up. Birds, fish, turtles, undersea creatures eat the stuff. You can imagine the consequences, not only to them, but to humans who eventually eat the fish, birds, or turtles. The coastlines are full of the stuff washed up after a storm.
Get the real story by visiting the web. It’s worth a look. One of the best sites to explain all this is at maholo.com. Check it out, watch the video, and tell your friends…
Send them this link: http://www.mahalo.com/Great_Pacific_Ocean_Garbage_Patch.
View addtional videos at youtube.
See an animation of the vortex.
May we learn to love the earth!
If you add all the junk floating around the earth, it is clear to see that we are making a total mess.
thank you for pointing this out.
henry
Thank you for this article. Although I knew plastic waste was a problem, the “Great Vortex” was news to me.
What’s truly heartbreaking is that it’s now progressed beyond the point at which we could hope to fix it. These days it seems like other environmental threats are headed in the same direction at an accelerating pace. Before long, we won’t be able to slow the iceberg melt, the widening ozone hole, or global warming.
We were warned for years and did nothing. We’re still largely doing nothing. It’s time to put our money where our collective mouth is!