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    How plastic travels the seas (awesome link)

    Ok so you all know by now my opinions and beliefs on plastics and how they interact with the ocean and the environment. Living near the Pacific Ocean we are well aware of the fact that there is a massive trash heap circling off the coast that pollutes the water, pollutes beaches, chokes and entangles wildlife, and generally does no good at all for the health of the ocean and in turn the planet. Now there is a link that can illustrate the harmful affects of things like plastic bottles, plastic bags, and other harmful litter and pollutants that we allow to enter the ecosystem every single day. It's a really cool map and hopefully it will open some eyes.

    Click here to experiment with the interactive map to see how plastic travels in the ocean
    Adrift: tracking the global ocean circulation

    Click here to read more about the harmful impacts of plastic in the ocean
    Plastic Oceans: 18/09/2012, Behind the News

    This link shows the harmful chemical impact of plastic bottles and items like it
    Chemical From Plastic Water Bottles Found Throughout Oceans - Wired Science

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    We have a 5 mile section of land jutting out into Galveston bay, that was made using dredge spoil from digging out our port's ship channel early last century. We had a pretty violent tropical storm come through one year and it deposited THOUSANDS of plastic soda bottles up and down the five miles

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    Quote Originally Posted by BB-35 View Post
    We have a 5 mile section of land jutting out into Galveston bay, that was made using dredge spoil from digging out our port's ship channel early last century. We had a pretty violent tropical storm come through one year and it deposited THOUSANDS of plastic soda bottles up and down the five miles
    It's pretty crazy. I've been on some pretty secluded beaches before along the pacific coast and up in alaska and it's amazing the amount of trash that you can find along the beaches, mostly plastic stuff.
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    What made all the bottles so striking is the mixture of green plastic bottles in the bunch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chloe View Post
    It's pretty crazy. I've been on some pretty secluded beaches before along the pacific coast and up in alaska and it's amazing the amount of trash that you can find along the beaches, mostly plastic stuff.
    There is garbage on virtually every beach across the globe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    There is garbage on virtually every beach across the globe.
    and not to sound too anti-human, but none of that trash was put there by any other species besides ours. That's what's sad, but that also means that we can stop it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chloe View Post
    and not to sound too anti-human, but none of that trash was put there by any other species besides ours. That's what's sad, but that also means that we can stop.
    Agreed.

    Survivor Man often mentions that he can be left stranded on the most remote beaches and can gurantee he'll be able to find bottles and other useful garbage.
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    It's pretty sad when you think about it, and the fact that there is no solution to fix what has already been done.

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    I would imagine that we could set up large structures near these plastic "islands" and convert them into alcohol fuels.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adelaide View Post
    It's pretty sad when you think about it, and the fact that there is no solution to fix what has already been done.
    Thats true. You would think that there would be more efforts to at least remove a portion of it, especially in the pacific. There are beach cleanup a which are great but it doesn't remove the primary source for a lot of the litter coming from off shore.
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