Comments on: An Ocean of Rubbish

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:50:06 +0000

Can’t they gather this stuff together and make a big landfill island somewhere? fill a dead coral reef/lagoon? Just an idea, I’m sure the environmentalists would shit bricks but it can’t be worse than letting this stuff biodegrade all over the Pacific and get into our food and every other animal’s food chain…I’m sure the biggest culprits of this trash are countries like China, Mexico, Central America where they have little regulations…Hell Mexico still dumps human waste into the oceans and that regularly washes up in San Diego or LA…

By: Roshan

Roshan — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:45:30 +0000

Here’s a great blog by someone who’s on her way to the garbage patch: lindseyhoshaw.wordpress.com/
Plus, if you have kids, read them a book called The Wartville Wizard, where a disgruntled old man gets the power to send garbage back to stick to the people who dropped it. Great idea!

By: Patti

Patti — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:55:30 +0000

I vacationed on the big island of Hawaii once, and on a hike to the southern most tip of the island, a good 2 miles away from the main road, the coastline was littered with garbage. I couldn’t figure out where all of it had come from. There were no houses, no civilization for miles and miles around. And there bags, broken toys, bottles of all sorts, rope, fishing line, broken plastic bottles, a broken up laundry basket, just all manner of trash. I think now I know why it was all there!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:50:16 +0000

Joe, thanks for posting that article. It really put the whole thing into perspective. The fact that the author had DDT in her blood speaks volumes about the lasting effects some of these chemicals have on the environment. The damage we’ve caused to the earth is a hard thing to look in the eye, but I guess it’s better to see the truth than to live happily blind.

By: BraceletSeeds

BraceletSeeds — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:14:23 +0000

My God that’s horrid. Do you think one day space will have a sucking vortex of our junk?

It might already be happening, but at least there aren’t any creatures that we know of out there swallowing our rubbish. Then again………..my brain hurts.

By: Escoofield

Escoofield — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:18:23 +0000

That’s not very good.. this world is full of trash.. we must help each other to clean the earth.. before the aliens save the earth from us

Escoofield –
alotofit.com

By: batboat

batboat — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:26:03 +0000

Atlantic ocean suffers the same. I went to the nearly uninhabited (due to hurricanes) east shore of Cat Island Bahamas. Unlimited plastic scrap is driven ashore by the trade winds. I picked up a bottle with print that I could not decipher and a tail plane from a US marked target drone. Locals walk the beach each morning claiming cast-off waste from ocean vessels and other trash.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:07:38 +0000

I wonder how much money could be made for recycling the entirety of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? millions?

By: KJ

KJ — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:10:04 +0000

I wish you folks could spell better. If you are going to try to make a point, it would come across much better if you would take a few minutes and make it look like you have an ounce of intelligence.

By: neosopheus

neosopheus — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:12:56 +0000

I read through these comments and am appalled by the ignorance within. How about doing some research before you open your unenlightened mouths and say that this is not real? My god people, wake the hell up!