The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
It contains 3.5million tons of trash. Objects such as shoes, toys, pacifiers, wrappers, toothbrushes bottles and that%u2019s only the beginning of this dump. We humans toss 2.5 million pieces into our oceans hourly. Because it has been continually avoided this environmental disaster has expanded and is only just been recognised now. But still no help has gone underway to clear this mess which means this rubbish tip will just get larger.
It just doesnt just spoil the view but strangles wildlife and can actually change the entire ecosystem. Birds and mammals are dying of starvation and dehydration with stomachs full of plastics and fish are eating toxins that soon will be no longer safe to eat. Researchers have watched in disgust as seabirds mistake old lighters and toothbrushes for fish, chocking when they try to regurgitate it for their starving chicks. (Trashing the oceans) Captain Watson said that 312 species of birds or 36 percent are known to mistakenly ingest plastic. Seabirds have no safe place to live, breed, eat and rear the chicks. Seabirds such as the Layson Albatross. Forty percent of all chicks born die due to the causes of plastic and rubbish ingestion.
Also sea turtles have a huge risk of extinction due to Ocean rubbish. There are seven types of sea turtles and six are threatened and or endangered. Plastic are unavoidable on the ocean floor and on the surface. Tiny crumbs of floating polystyrene is continually mistaken for plankton and small fish. Ingesting these substances is known to cause death either by slowly chocking the turtle or blocking its stomach so it eventually cannot eat.
It contains 3.5million tons of trash. Objects such as shoes, toys, pacifiers, wrappers, toothbrushes bottles and that%u2019s only the beginning of this dump. We humans toss 2.5 million pieces into our oceans hourly. Because it has been continually avoided this environmental disaster has expanded and is only just been recognised now. But still no help has gone underway to clear this mess which means this rubbish tip will just get larger.
It just doesnt just spoil the view but strangles wildlife and can actually change the entire ecosystem. Birds and mammals are dying of starvation and dehydration with stomachs full of plastics and fish are eating toxins that soon will be no longer safe to eat. Researchers have watched in disgust as seabirds mistake old lighters and toothbrushes for fish, chocking when they try to regurgitate it for their starving chicks. (Trashing the oceans) Captain Watson said that 312 species of birds or 36 percent are known to mistakenly ingest plastic. Seabirds have no safe place to live, breed, eat and rear the chicks. Seabirds such as the Layson Albatross. Forty percent of all chicks born die due to the causes of plastic and rubbish ingestion.
Also sea turtles have a huge risk of extinction due to Ocean rubbish. There are seven types of sea turtles and six are threatened and or endangered. Plastic are unavoidable on the ocean floor and on the surface. Tiny crumbs of floating polystyrene is continually mistaken for plankton and small fish. Ingesting these substances is known to cause death either by slowly chocking the turtle or blocking its stomach so it eventually cannot eat.
And they are more worried about saving the car industr...
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This is terrible ! We need to spread the word there arn't enough people that know about our discusting habits.
We have a Plan and are working hard to build Our Ocean Cleaning Ship by the end of this year You can Sign My Petition to show your support http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ocean-clean-up-project
What goes around comes around. What we put into the ocean goes straight into the food web. What we've done to this planet collectively, especially the United States, is completely appaulling and we should be ashamed of our apathy and laziness and desparately seek some semblance of resolve to this issue.
why isn't the goverment doing something about it,we all share the same planet.
Please something needs to be done about this now before its to late....
Little or no news coverage. Another shame on humanity!
plastic has become a modern enviornmental scurge.is will ruin the planet unless we change our consumption and disposal methods!
It doesn't matter whose fault it is. We just need to do something about it. FAST.
Picking up trash should be everyones responsability, can you imagine what this country would look like if we all cleaned up after ourselevs?????
Picking up trash should be everyones responsability, can you imagine what this country would look like if we all cleaned up after ourselevs?????
I go to the beach every weekend and spend the first hour and a half picking up other people's trash. I believe each of us can make a difference by setting an example for others. In addition, if we want to change the destructive path we are on, the world must educate it's inhabitants and prosecute the violaters.
Growing up in Florida, I have a great love and appreciation for the ocean. I try to pick up trash every weekend at local beaches. More and more my bags are being filled with plastic. People just don't realize the enormity of the problem. Everyone should sign this petition. Be ocean minded!
Create jobs - employ out of work fisherman to make a start on cleaning up this huge mess. Life time employment!
THIS MUST BE CLEANED OR OUR OCEAN WILDLIFE AND WATER WILL BE FOREVER GONE/RUINED. Do you want your grandchildren to grow up in a planet like this? living on garbage? there is NO EXCUSE why no one has gone out there to help clean it. especially all you activists out there. START DOING SOMETHING.
I think this is outrageous - we are going to wipe ourselves and so many other species out! Do you want to be eating fish with toxins from plasitcs in their belly seeping through their omega 3 fish oils - Do you believe in God? If you do you should make a conscious effort to be a caretaker of this planet and pick up the rubbish you see drifting down your streets before it washes down a drain and into an ocean near you.. and if you do not believe in God (like myself) you should have the moral decency to care for your fellow earth creatures and flora and do likewise. Small people like you and me can make a difference! And getting our messages out there to the manufacturers is so important... silence means consent... speak out!!
I am so afraid we are too late.
We must encourage the world governments to clean up this terrible mess!!!!
This is terrible. I can't believe we would let this happen to our oceans. We have money to bail out corrupt institutions but we can't spend a dime to bail out our life giving oceans? Without them we wouldn't be here, so by destroying them we're just destroying ourselves.
Someone has to come up with a solution to our trash troubles. Make everything oil based biodegradable with no toxic results from the breakdown or recyclable and pass laws that this stuff must be recycled. LOL We'll never win against the petroleum and plastics industries, our lives are too wrapped around everything they manufacture. It has to be made easier to recycle. We are too lazy to pack everything up and drive across town to the recycle center. People are too lazy to separate and put their bins out for pick up by the recycle trucks. Education starting in pre school and making recycling easier for lazy people is crucial.
Seen on a T-shirt: "There is no Planet B".
Uncheck dumping garbbage indiscriminately on our planet earth will impact the whole human race let's stop before we cover humanity with this unwanted deluge.
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WE can not repliate another ocean. Please protect what we have before it is all gone.
I'm horrified. Let's STOP polluting our ocean's NOW!
I hope this petition is going to be sent to some high-level officials. We all can lobby our local councils and elected representatives to get proactive on this issue. And talk to our friends about it, and set an example ourselves! Here in Wellington, rubbish lying in the street gutters goes through the stormwater system and ends up in the streams and finally in the sea. People can help by picking up litter; councils can help by cleaning the streets more often and in other ways. I used to walk around a few neighbouring streets and picked up a lot of plastic and glass this way. But 2.5 million items a day sounds shameful.
Please keep trash out of the oceans. Thank you.
