Pollution reaches everywhere - General

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN8JYhByVYg[/media] This is filmed on a uninhabited island pretty far away from any coastline.

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[QUOTE=SGTenima123;39938310]Remore the s from https[/QUOTE] Ty

Oh man, I usually don't give a shit about birds and seagulls -- but ho'damn that made me a bit more tolerant.

That's just disturbing to watch, it's just like half their body mass is all that rubbish they eat. It seems to be something that could potentially make albatross extinct. I feel so bad for those birds, they must spend most of their lifetime till the end suffering because they eat all that rubbish :(

I find it hard to believe that it's that bad.

[QUOTE=Abrown516;39941953]I find it hard to believe that it's that bad.[/QUOTE] well believe it now motherfucker also hasn't midway island been inhabited in the past?

Wasn't their a battle there in WW2?

[QUOTE=Abrown516;39941953]I find it hard to believe that it's that bad.[/QUOTE] The ocean is full of our garbage. All sorts of waste winds up in the ocean, and it doesn't stop at the coast. It gets swept up and hauled around. The heavier, less buoyant stuff eventually sinks or washes up on island like the one in the video, and while the smaller bits of plastic float around forever and eventually photodegrade. I remember seeing a picture from some deep sea researchers in a submersible on the bottom of the ocean, exploring an undersea vent that's never been seen before, and there they found a plastic bottle on the bottom. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFMW8srq0Qk[/media]

I mean I'm all for environmentalism and recycling, but where are we going to eventually put it when it can't be recycled any longer? Landfills? Also, I don't have a very developed opinion on this, so go easy on me. I don't really know a clear concise solution to this problem that is visible, we can't just stop production of plastics, and a 100% recyclable economy on the scale of billions would be extremely hard to implement any time soon.

[QUOTE=lifehole;39942149]I mean I'm all for environmentalism and recycling, but where are we going to eventually put it when it can't be recycled any longer? Landfills? Also, I don't have a very developed opinion on this, so go easy on me. I don't really know a clear concise solution to this problem that is visible, we can't just stop production of plastics, and a 100% recyclable economy on the scale of billions would be extremely hard to implement any time soon.[/QUOTE] I'd say anywhere but the ocean. It's not good to have it floating out there. [editline]17th March 2013[/editline] What we need to do is develop more biodegradable plastics and improve waste management infrastructure so it doesn't end up in the ocean. Though no matter what garbage will always end up there eventually, that's what the better biodegradability is for.

[QUOTE=lifehole;39942149]I mean I'm all for environmentalism and recycling, but where are we going to eventually put it when it can't be recycled any longer? Landfills? Also, I don't have a very developed opinion on this, so go easy on me. I don't really know a clear concise solution to this problem that is visible, we can't just stop production of plastics, and a 100% recyclable economy on the scale of billions would be extremely hard to implement any time soon.[/QUOTE] Landfills are a pretty good place for trash to go. They really don't take up a whole lot of space, specifically engineered to have minimal impact on the environment and the land above it can still be used for a few things.

And my family laughs at me for keeping my bottle caps(plastic) since our depot doesn't take bottles with caps on them.... I literally have a couple hundred caps in a box waiting to be properly recycled.

I've watched this video a handful of times. It's very disturbing and it had me thinking about our impact on the planet. Some could say evolution would simply kill off the birds that are dumb enough to eat the crap that will kill them, but our impact on the planet is much bigger than this. We kill off entire species. If we destroy what a food-source needs then the life that eats that food-source will suffer as well. Extinction is bigger than death. Certain life is completely wiped off the planet forever because of what we humans decide to do. And this is not just about trash. Think about deforestation, climate change, poaching, all of these things are changing things for the worst. I was thinking, is this the best or worst of times? Well that is debatable for humans, but it is certainly the [B]worst[/B] of times for everything that shares Earth with humans. Your well-treated house pets do not make up for the billions of lifeforms that are disappearing forever from unnatural causes. I encourage you all to recycle everything you can. It's as simple as that. Recycle plastic bottles, paper, batteries, anything to keep our use of natural resources down and to prevent what we don't reuse from killing all the life that surrounds us on our planet. There's billions of us and billions of them, and that leaves no room for our billions of toxic trash that we force life to live in.

Wasn't this proven to be fake?

[QUOTE=The-Spy;39943343]And my family laughs at me for keeping my bottle caps(plastic) since our depot doesn't take bottles with caps on them.... I literally have a couple hundred caps in a box waiting to be properly recycled.[/QUOTE] My brother used to collect bottle caps, he had 2-4 very large shopping bags full of them, you couldn't lift a single one of them alone.

Wow, poor things..