Talk about a Raft Up! Sailing the Pacific plastic dump.

[Jeff Asbury]

Sailing the Pacific plastic dump

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/16/vbs.toxic.garbage.island/index.html?hpt=C1

 

[Sven]

I had just watched that this AM and sent the link off to folks who would be interested.

As one friend pointed out; all plastic ever created that has not been burned or recycled still exists as plastic.



-Sven

 

[Dave Hussey]

plastic soup

Wow. I was in tears. We are killing our mother earth.

 

[Jeff Asbury]

Mother Ocean too!

Did you watch parts 2 & 3? The CNN clip was just part of the voyage.

http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/toxic-garbage-island-2-of-3--4

About an hour total.

vbs.tv is a very cool site. Loved the film about North Korea too.

 

[Lucky Dog]

remember the famous line from "The Graduate"...not that one, the other one. Advising his future son-n-law about the future, he says "I have only one word for you; plastic".

Looking at that photo he couldn't have been more right
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