Plastic and the Oceans

[Chloe]

Plastic pollution is probably my biggest environmental passion/interest out there and here are just a few simple pictures that help tell the story. There are so many more pictures and points to be made but I just wanted to get this started first.

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[Chloe]

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[Chloe]

This picture pretty much sums it up sometimes

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[PolWatch]

the trash in the ocean could have started here...a local river after a rain storm

[Chloe]

These are plastic microbeads. You can often find these in skin creams, face wash, and so on. These beads get washed down the drain and are incredibly difficult to filter out. They often times make their way to water systems and ultimately the rivers/ocean where many marine animals mistake them for food or ingest them without knowledge. FYI for you fish eaters out there whatever the fish in the ocean are eating, you are eating.

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[PolWatch]

The above video was 2 years ago...about the time the EPA came in and started fining the city of Mobile. They are now installing trash traps along the rivers...so some of the trash washed into the storm drains and into the rivers can be caught.

[GrassrootsConservative]

This eases my concern a bit. I wasn't aware fish just ate that stuff. Thank you, Chloe.

[Chloe]

This eases my concern a bit. I wasn't aware fish just ate that stuff. Thank you, Chloe.

I don't know if you are being serious or if you are mocking me.

[Polecat]

You realize I hope that the issue here isn't the plastic. It is people that dispose of it carelessly. It is all 100% recyclable and should be handled in this manner. Would we go back to paper and cut down all the trees? Plastic is actually a good thing for the environment IF it is not mishandled. Banning its use is the wrong tactic.

[GrassrootsConservative]

I don't know if you are being serious or if you are mocking me.

I simply don't care any more. And you shouldn't either. You don't eat fish anyway, you vegetarian you.