Plastic Trash Vortex

[Broken_LCD]

Anyone have any links/pics to post of some good up close or aerial views of the Plastic Trash Vortex in the Pacific?

I went on Google but it's just coming up generic pictures or ones of bottles floating in water.

What's going on with that also, I recently became informed about it. Has the government or private groups done anything to clean it? I read it's bigger than Texas.

[Jaguarstrike]

http://science.howstuffworks.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm

Try searching on google for that name of it.

[emag]

I'm assuming the external links in the wikipedia article about it have some good pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch#External_links

[Kitsunexus]

Couldn't we put a giant vacuum on a helicopter and suck all the trash up and drop it in an incinerator and convert it to fossil fuel?

[Issue313]

I'm assuming the external links in the wikipedia article about it have some good pictures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch#External_links

I don't see an awful lot of garbage there. This Garbage Patch seems more make-believe than real.

Why are environmental tasks delegated to an "individual" level/effort. Most people are cretinous, soul-less monsters. Telling them to reduce, reuse and go cycle is worthless.

This trash in the ocean is the responsibility of governments, who tax, regulate and are elected by those who dump trash.

[Jaguarstrike]

I don't see an awful lot of garbage there. This Garbage Patch seems more make-believe than real.

Why are environmental tasks delegated to an "individual" level/effort. Most people are cretinous, soul-less monsters. Telling them to reduce, reuse and go cycle is worthless.

This trash in the ocean is the responsibility of governments, who tax, regulate and are elected by those who dump trash.

The way its described it seems more like an area with a higher density of plastic trash than normal, not an actual giant solid patch.

That doesnt make it real though.

[bsquared]

Plastics... what a great idea.... someone really dropped the ball on that one. I love how at places like wally world you go and buy like one small item and they put it in a bag. WTF?

[scovegner]

The thing with it is that as the plastics degrade, they just go into small 'pellets' which are spread absolutely everywhere, and they're just under the water so not very visible, which fucks up a whole load of creatures there .. and just 'vacuuming it up' would kill anything else in the water too like plankton and fish etc etc etc, pretty much fucking up the whole ecosystem even more than it already is ..