Eep! Another good reason to recycle

[profundis]

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/trashing-our-oceans/ocean_pollution_animation


More on this for those skeptical of Greenpeace:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean2aug02,0,3130914.story

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1011/p02s01-usgn.html

http://www.globalsurfnews.com/news.asp?Id_news=24704

Comments

[jkusters]

Scary news. Wonder where the pictures are. Fancy web graphics are good at explaining, but if they wanted to drive the point home, they would have shown us this Texas-sized mass of plastic.

(Yeah, I tend to be skeptical of Greenpeace claims. I have found that on occasion, they have exaggerated their claims in order to drum up money and legislative action. I'd rather they just be honest.)

JOhn.

[profundis.livejournal.com]

I take pretty much all Greenpeace, PETA, etc manipu-graphics with a grain of salt, but I find this one pretty plausible...I imagine it would be pretty hard to get a picture of the trash on the bottom of the Pacific though. I'll go google a bit and see what I can find.

[jkusters]

Same here with the grain of salt.

I have to admit that my impression from the web site was that the trash was floating on the surface. I possibly skimmed it too fast looking for cool pictures. If that's not the case, while I still think pictures would be the clincher, I can understand why they don't have them.

Then again, without pictures, how do they know it's happening, and that it's the size of Texas? I mean, I've been to Texas. It's a big place... :-)

JOhn.

[profundis.livejournal.com]

Check out the above links, a 5 minute Google session provided plenty of backup. I was merely mailed the link to the GP graphic without any other context, but it sounds like they are right on this time.