TRASH BAG ISLAND 2X size of texas!!!

[Sammet]

hey DUMBSHIT, you're right if I only would read the article you're joking right? of course i read the damn thing. Use your powers of logic if you haven;'t yet cashed them into your bong.

if what they say is true the proof of it's existence would include:
1. be visible from google earth?
2. there would be tons of pics because something like that cannot be kept secret.
3. people would be able to see it from an airplane, considering Hawaii is probably one of the most traveled to places in the world. People would think they're over the ocean and surely someone would see this continent sized trash heap.


are any of those obvious proofs out? No, just some short damned article on the internet, where EVERYTHING claimed must be true!

Prove this pile exists without text, thats retarded. If you read that someone shit a log the size of a truck tire would you believe it or need to SEE proof?

Who said it was on the surface?

 

[master shake]

Who said it was on the surface?

whoever called it an "island"

what's an island?

"a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists."


"The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii."

 

[marx2k]

anyone seen the movie "Idiocracy"? Horrible movie, takes place in the future (where people are as smart, or dumb I mean, as Woody Creek) and there's all those garbage mountains falling over and shit lol. hope the world doesn't turn out like that, it's heading there though

My state is having some serious problems trying to figure out what to do with all the garbage. Its newest landfill is almost full. We might have to pay to ship the trash out of state

 

[Sammet]

whoever called it an "island"

what's an island?

"a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists."


"The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii."

"There are few islands on which the floating material can beach. So it stays there in the gyre, in astounding quantities estimated at six kilos of plastic for every kilo of naturally occurring plankton.

The equivalent of an area the size of Texas swirling slowly around like a clock. This gyre has also been dubbed “the Asian Trash Trail” the “Trash Vortex” or the “Eastern Garbage Patch”."



I think you and most others have failed to grasp the point. There is a large current in the pacific, that covers an area the size of texas(x2?) between San Francisco and Hawaii. Within this there is a huge amount of trash, 3.5 million tonnes as well as some small islands "on which the the floating material can beach".

So to make it more interesting and catchy from a journalistic point of view they construct an article that makes you think, "whoa theres a big island of rubbish thats the size of texas". If they said theres a big part of the ocean affected by currents that picks up trash and concentrates it into one small area, I don't think people would be as interested.



"The North Pacific gyre is one of five major ocean gyres and it is possible that this Trash Vortex problem is one which is present in other oceans as well. The Sargasso Sea is a well known slow circulation area in the Atlantic, and research there has also demonstrated high concentrations of plastic particles present in the water."
"Of course, not all plastic floats. In fact around 70 percent of discarded plastic sinks to the bottom. In the North Sea, Dutch scientists have counted around 110 pieces of litter for every square kilometre of the seabed, a staggering 600,000 tonnes in the North Sea alone. These plastics can smother the sea bottom and kill the marine life which is found there."

From the link above if you didn't read it.

 

[master shake]

So to make it more interesting and catchy from a journalistic point of view they construct an article that makes you think, "whoa theres a big island of rubbish thats the size of texas". If they said theres a big part of the ocean affected by currents that picks up trash and concentrates it into one small area, I don't think people would be as interested.

and that's why I don't tend to believe everything I read, ****in journalists. I think I now understand what the problem is. But to put such a descriptive and FALSE characteristic is not good for credibility and distracts from the real problem taking place. understand where I'm comming from??

 

[Guest]

Another great reason/arguement to legalize hemp.
According to the article from SF Gate:
"using canvas bags to cart groceries instead of using plastic bags is a good first step"
Thanks for the read.

 

[HAPPYTREE]

Master shake pls take a look at this video it is a real problem regardless of mis guided journalist embelishments.
http://www.algalita.org/pelagic_plastic_mov.html

HT

 

[TwoOhSix!]

Yeah they made it sound like a huge continent you could walk around on there was so trash floating there. Apparently it swirls around and isn't solid, so that would be why you can't see it from google earth.

 

[Sammet]

and that's why I don't tend to believe everything I read, ****in journalists. I think I now understand what the problem is. But to put such a descriptive and FALSE characteristic is not good for credibility and distracts from the real problem taking place. understand where I'm comming from??

I totally get ya, It's sad that issues like this can't be mentioned without them having to be spiced up.

 

[marx2k]

Another great reason/arguement to legalize hemp.
According to the article from SF Gate:
"using canvas bags to cart groceries instead of using plastic bags is a good first step"
Thanks for the read.

Well, since people these days don't use reusable bags made from ANY material (including plastic) on a large scale, how about just making plastic bags illegal? Just because you give people the opportunity to do something good for themselves and those around them, most of the time... they don't

 

[Woody Creek]

pimp hand you punk.

pimp hand you punk.

hey DUMBSHIT, you're right if I only would read the article you're joking right? of course i read the damn thing. Use your powers of logic if you haven;'t yet cashed them into your bong.

if what they say is true the proof of it's existence would include:
1. be visible from google earth?
2. there would be tons of pics because something like that cannot be kept secret.
3. people would be able to see it from an airplane, considering Hawaii is probably one of the most traveled to places in the world. People would think they're over the ocean and surely someone would see this continent sized trash heap.


are any of those obvious proofs out? No, just some short damned article on the internet, where EVERYTHING claimed must be true!

Prove this pile exists without text, thats retarded. If you read that someone shit a log the size of a truck tire would you believe it or need to SEE proof?

Either way you need to research before calling HOAX. I don't like having my integtity questioned, esp. by the likes of you......Master shake.....known of being a dumbass cartoon.

 

[master shake]

all I was saying is there is no way a damn continent sized dense heap of trash could exist in the ocean, and that is true. Now saying a section of water is being overtaken by tiny garbage fragments at a huge scale is different and needs to be fixed. And I too don't like having my integrity questioned by an easily victimized pussy.

 

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