Look at this ungodly mess!
"Research has attributed as much as 60 per cent of the world's plastic pollution to just five countries, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, likely reasons those oceans are so polluted."
Well, I'm glad the US is not on the hook as being the worst county in EVERY respect!
Jon
The plastic heap pictures that accompany these articles are nonsense. The trillions of particles in open ocean are microscopic and invisible.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
And eaten by fish, which are then eaten by humans.
Who knows what effect the chemicals in the plastics have on humans.
John Larkin wrote on 7/17/2017 10:48 PM:
I love it. Someone points out a problem of truly global proportions that will require international cooperation to deal with and Larson gripes about the pictures. Geez!
Maybe he'll like this one better?
-- Rick C
The Philippines seemed to have whole islands where the beach was mostly made of plastic.
Also relevant:
Clifford Heath.
The pictures don't pretend to represent litter in open ocean, they in fact show the the areas where the pollution starts, places like harbors and rivers. And just because something is invisible doesn't mean it's harmless or absent.
Philippines is cooperating and cracking down hard. You can't find plastic bags there anywhere.
"Science" atricles are usually illustrated with dishonest pictures, or artists illustrations that are not identified as such. The light from some star shows a questionable dip now and then, so we get a big image of a planet with land and oceans and clouds and all that and near claims of life discovered.
NASA is generating this nonsense!
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
It wouldn't be hard to pick it up.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
Do you have any idea of the expanse of the ocean?
We're talking about a beach "mostly made of plastic". Hire some kids to keep it clean.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
John Larkin wrote on 7/18/2017 2:53 PM:
Sometimes I literally laugh out loud at the things that come from John Larkin. The solution to the vast expanse of waste plastic polluting the oceans is to "hire some kids" to keep it clean.
I can see why he voted for Donald Trump. They both think in very similar, incredibly simplistic terms. Maybe that goes with his lack of a proper math background.
-- Rick C
You do understand the extent of the pollution goes beyond the beach?
OLD "news"; at least 10 years old...
Exactly. Grass, coconut trees, tropical creepers of all kinds, houses, all on plastic that is embedded up to a foot or more deep with sand, for tens of thousands of kilometres of coastline on 7000 islands. Pick it up! Ridiculous. Typical Larkin simplism.
Regarding government "cracking down" - many parts of the Philippines barely know any government above the local village (barangay) council. One extremely remote island we visited was in fiesta, with all the streets festooned with bunting made of plastic bags blowing in the breeze like balloons. No electricity, almost no phones, no cars, no roads that go anywhere of significance, only a couple of motorbikes in a village of 1,000 people... but they have lots of plastic.
Clifford Heath.
If people would clean up their beaches, the stuff wouldn't drift out to sea on the next tide. And the looney web sites wouldn't have so many free horror scenes to show; they'd have to stage them.
Blue-water plastic pollution is low density, microscopic stuff. Bleach bottles on the sand keep tourists away.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
A better approach could be to work out how to make removing the plastic profitable.
NT
The main thing is Manila and the rest of Luzon are under control. And what are those jungle people doing with so many bags? It's not like there are malls for them to shop.
When Pinatubu blew in 1991 it killed a lot of people (many hundreds, perhaps a few thousands), but the government doesn't really have a solid idea how many- they were mostly the Aeta (who have facial characteristics like blacks) tribe. And that was within 10's of km of major military installations.
Probably the shops prefer plastic bags because of theft issues when people bring their own big bayongs or whatever. Also, blown-film 'T-shirt' style bags use almost no plastic and are extremely cheap.
--sp
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