Navotas, Manila

Another great photo, another ruined landscape and lots of plastic bags

Navotas, Manila Originally uploaded by jna876

Swan Song

Cleaning up

Originally uploaded by jeroenf

I really dont think the swans should be doing this….

 

 

The Trash Vortex

Whats made of plastic and is the size of texas? Its the trash vortex out there in the middle of the sea. Swirling currents collect up all the ocean debris into a big rubbish soup in the centre of the ocean. In the old days this rubbish was biodegradable so would rot. These days its plastic which does not rot. Result – permanant rubbish floating round the ocean.Try wickpedia for an great intro what we are doing to our oceans.

For more articles go to trash vortex

Dont fancy reading? Watch one of these scary videos of what lurks beneath the waves

For educational dvds go to http://www.algalita.org/videos-research.html

SEA ANIMALS mistake plastic for food eat it and choke or starve to death. The plastic does not rot in their stomachs but comes out intact. It can then go on to kill more SEA ANIMALS. Serial killer plastic.

Albatross chick fed plastic by its parents starves to death.

Stupid humans too are eating plastic

Plastic degrades – it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. Dr Thompson and his team have been researching sea side plastic

“They found plastic particles smaller than grains of sand. Dr Thompson’s findings estimate there are 300,000 items of plastic per sq km of sea surface, and 100,000 per sq km of seabed.
So plastic appears to be everywhere in our seas. The next task was to try and find out what kind of sea creatures might be consuming it and with what consequences.”

to cut his report short Its ends up in the little fishes and so into you.

Want to cut down on plastic rubbish? – you can find plastic free products with the A-Z plastic free index

Scary Movies

Because I cant work out how to post you tube clips, you have to follow the links for
Trash Vortex I
and
Trash Vortex II

Trash Vortex

Gannet, Cornish Coast –

click the photo to see more plastic in the sea

A ”plastic soup” of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said.

The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world’s largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. This drifting “soup” stretches from about 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, across the northern Pacific, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. The  Independant tells it as it is

Is how the Independant newspaper describes it.

Though Greenpeace have been worried for a while

Many seabirds and their chicks have been found dead, their stomachs filled with medium sized plastic items such as bottle tops, lighters and balloons.

However others are picking up the story try schnews for the nasty nurdles

billions of tiny plastic pellets, called nurdles – the raw materials for the plastic industry – are lost or spilled every year, many ending up in the sea. These act like chemical sponges, soaking up other toxic man-made chemicals, all artificial pollutants (for toxicity think DDT pesticide etc), concentrating them up to a million times more than in normal sea water.

But  lets give Dr Erikson as quoted in the Independant the last word

They then enter the food chain. “What goes into the ocean goes into these animals and onto your dinner plate. It’s that simple,” said Dr Eriksen.

Why are there no photos?
Oysters garter has the best answer

other articles to read on the subject are
Naked man in the tree

the great photo is by plasticbagpics   check out the rest

Save the birds by going plastic free. Find  plastic free products with the >>>A-Z<<< plastic free index