Plastics
Nearly every piece of plastic ever created still exists today and our inability to manage our pollution has resulted in a massive buildup of plastic in the oceans
Currents pick up plastic from all corners of the ocean, and where they converge, a gyre is formed
A gyre is essentially a massive plastic soup
The largest formation, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is roughly twice the size of British Columbia – there are gyres like this in every ocean
Marine animals often mistake plastic for food, ingest it, and end up dying
it's estimated that several million tons of plastic makes its way into our oceans every year, polluting the environment and affecting wildlife. method is raising awareness about the issue by taking plastic off our beaches and turning it into bottles. more to come on this innovative project in october 2012.
http://facebook.com/ScienceReason ... Plastics In Our Oceans: The 'Plastiki' Expedition. David de Rothschild and his boat, the 'Plastiki', will set sail across the Pacific soon. Find out how a boat made entirely of plastic hopes to rid the oceans of the stuff.
David Suzuki explains how changes in population and technology have resulted in the decline of the ocean's health.
A Vancouver photographer shares the shocking images he saw at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch near Hawaii.
Original Content Courtesy of: Plastic Paradise Find out how to watch the entire film or host a screening at: http://www.tugg.com/titles/plastic-paradise Facebook: Plastic Paradise https://www.facebook.com/pages/Plastic-Paradise/206630206021727 Twitter: @plasticpdise Instagram: @plasticpdise Website: www.plasticparadisemovie.com Our earth is covered by more than 75 percent water, yet we know more about the moon than the depths of the sea.
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/. Oceans are silently choking on our plastic waste. Plastic and synthetic materials are the most common types of debris in our oceans and are having horrific impacts on marine wildlife and systems. As an island continent "girt by sea" marine debris is of particular importance for Australia.
Vice sails to the North Pacific Gyre, collecting point for all of the ocean's flotsam and home of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: a mythical, Texas-sized island made entirely of our trash.
The MIDWAY film project is a powerful visual journey into the heart of an astonishingly symbolic environmental tragedy. On one of the remotest islands on our planet, tens of thousands of baby albatrosses lie dead on the ground, their bodies filled with plastic from the Pacific Garbage Patch.
