Take a cruise to the North Pacific garbage patch
For a mere $10,000, you can book a seat on a 20-day working cruise to a giant patch of floating plastic trash.
Photo: Andrea Zanivan/Flickr Comments
That Tsunami that hit
Japan put a big cunk of garbage into this patch.
I work with a company that manufactures systems that trap oil and waste from sewer discharge. The company is called Freylit. These systems are easy to install and maintain and can be made to fit any size flow of water. Putting these in waterways that lead to the oceans would create jobs and a better marine environment.
Most ships at sea discharge trash, bildge waste and human waste overboard. This waste needs to be contained and processed when the ships return to port.
history shows that within the next 2,000 years the earth will slip into its next Ice Age. which will last 80,000 years. by the time the next Ice Age is over not even the pyrimids will be standing. for the future of man I pray there is such a thing as global warming.
the pyramids may be down but not the heap of plastics
how long before your dead? probably less than 2k years, considerably. so I wouldn't worry.
Like Bullocks said, econut's fairy tale...why not use your 10 G to pay down on the Brooklyn Bridge.
I thought a majority of plastics took hundreds or thousands of years to degrade. If that's the case, then how is this "plastic trash" already breaking down into "tiny plastic particles that pollute the water and threaten all manner of marine life in the area."
You can't fool Mother Nature and you can't change the laws of chemistry and physics.
salt in the ocean probably acts as an abrasive, breaking down the plastic faster then if it were stored in a glass case.
First: Does anyone have $10,000 dollars I could borrow. I would love to be on this cruise to Garbage Island! My childrens' performance is is virtually based on this disaster. (I literally do bubbles for a living!)
The Solution: Banish ALL cruise ships who are major contributors to this disaster!
Send Felons from the California jails on a cruise on a barge to begin the CLEAN-UP...it will take years, but hey, they have lots of time on their hands!
I'd like to check it out first hand but for 10 g's? Not a chance.
The giant pile of floating trash. Where there is one piece of trash every square mile. Look it up. The environmentalists made it sound like it was a giant, massive, cohesive pile of trash the size of texas. Not so. Again, look it up.
As you point out, there is no giant pile of floating trash.
Plastics are broken down relatively quickly (over a few years) in the open ocean by uv light and the agitation of waves. What collects in the center of the gyre isn't primarily large pieces of plastic, but very small (microscopic) plastic particles. This collects in very high concentrations and is taken into the food chain by plankton. Plastic, as you might guess, is not the best source of nourishment and has the potential.... More
Someone needs to build a giant Roomba type skimmer.
In Soviet Russia, employees pay YOU!
