Comments on: plastic soup

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:51:48 +0000

Wow - this is very alarming. You have to see it to believe it and thankfully more of us can see it thanks to the Internet.

By: Plastic Soup, Deformed Turtles, and Getting Over Ourselves | Productive Flourishing

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:05:55 +0000

[...] saw that picture yesterday and my heart sank. I found it here, and while the article was powerful in relation to what’s going on with the large plastic [...]

By: CharlesRKiss

CharlesRKiss — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:39:00 +0000

At least it’s all in one place. Now we can get it and recycle it, I guess.

By: Leeza

Leeza — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:02:40 +0000

As an American married to a Swiss man I’ve noticed several differences in “life styles” and “tradition”. One that stands out very clearly to me it that we as American’s shop in large quantities and bring home items to freeze and bulk stock even in our garages sometimes. Costco’s and the like offer lower pricing and gas prices make fewer trips to the store attractive. My family and I have adapted more to the “European” way of eating/living in that we grocery shop more freqently. We do this for two reasons, the first being it’s healthier for our bodies and our childrens eating habits. The second is that we find we create less garbage in general. We recycle and in our housing area the waste company comes twice a week. We, as a family of 4 that includes two very young children, never fill up our gabage can (which is a huge flip top green can we rent from the waste company). We always have our recycling bins full to over flowing. We also find that we can eat most anything we want and we don’t have any weight problems. This could be genetic you say, but there are some very heavy people in my family. The fast food and bulk storage of food with preservatives in it is reflected in the amounts of waste and obese children we produce as Americans. Each person must own their part in this and look for ways to improve the over all quality of life on this planet.

By: Ruth Molloy

Ruth Molloy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:02:02 +0000

Oh, and cruises are really filthy activities!

By: Ruth Molloy

Ruth Molloy — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:00:23 +0000

It’s hard to know where to begin…Months ago, I heard of this and the sufffering our habits cause for the rest of the living planet became a real topic for me. I don’t use plastic garbage bags, I recycle all plastic wrappers that come into my life, I even hold onto bread tabs, twist ties, bottle caps, safety seals (what the…?), pull tabs (it’s not just plastic that creates hazards for wildlife).; Call me crazy, because I don’t know what I’m going to do with this “trash collection”. But I cannot justify it going into the environment to only add to the destruction. We simply have to learn to live without this stuff. the “rest” of the world does, as consumers, anyway.

By: Trish

Trish — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:38:59 +0000

This is incredible… We really don’t want to keep the Earth a habitable place for our future do we? It is amazing how we are suppose to be the most intelligent beings on the Earth and we trash and destroy and neglect the place that we live in. I would say that we don’t have piles of garbage in the middle of our houses, but sadly I have seen houses that resemble those above pictures, sans the beach… Everyone needs to recycle and we need international laws about dumping in the ocean that are strongly enforced. *shakes head* Why are we so dumb?

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:18:24 +0000

That’s just ridiculous. What the hell is wrong with us? Most intelligent beings, indeed…..

By: Nestor

Nestor — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:34:27 +0000

Sad, I’d heard about the “raft” but I’d convinced myself that it was an urban legend, guess I was wrong…

By: rodney sorah

rodney sorah — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:41:46 +0000

This is terrible,it just is not shown enough.Also if we already have Bio-degradable plastic bags how come no Bio-degradable plastic drink and food containers?