Help SAVE the Planet
Help SAVE the Planet Blog
Follow our blog and feel free to contribute any info you would like to see posted... This blog is for ALL those persons who would like to start or follow any discussion regarding ANY issue that ails our beautiful planet. Identify the issue and lets start the discussion in search of viable solutions...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
One of the things that prompted me to join the 'help save the planet' crusade was a picture I saw of a small boat stuck in a traffic jam at the mouth of a river somewhere in China. It wasn't a traffic jam of boats it was a traffic jam of trash. There was so much garbage that the boat not all that small about 30 ft, couldn't get past it. Since then I've researched the 'Pacific Trash Vortex' and was shocked at the size of it and the toll it has taken on wildlife. With all of the latest technologies and business models that actually buy, recycle, and sell this crap I couldn't understand how this could be… I needed to 'jump in' to try and help out somehow...
Greenpeace International’s ‘The Trash Vortex’ has an animated map of the Pacific Ocean’s currents detailing the garbage problem on their web site…
TIME Science's ' Expedition Sets Sail to the Great Plastic Vortex' estimates its size as twice the size of Texas and also mentions the same types of problems in the Atlantic and Indian oceans as well...
Aside from the huge tasks involved in getting it cleaned up programs and systems need to be put in place for preventing trash and debris from entering our oceans to begin with… ODC
