Comments on: Pacific Ocean Garbage Island Bigger Than US

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:06:33 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rNYzSH-BA

copy and past this to see the original story that started all the rumors

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:05:10 +0000

god people are so stupid sometimes. There is not a solid plastic island of trash floating around somewhere ion the pacific.

What it is is supposedly an area twice that of texas is POLLUTED, and even that estimate is extremely biased. An enviromentalist college student did a film on pollution in the ocean, and claimed that there was an area twice that of texas (how he got that i dont know) that was polluted, There is no solid mass of garbage, though most enviromentalists would love it to be true.

By: Conor

Conor — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:55:49 +0000

Thanks Ken, very helpful links.

By: Ken Homer

Ken Homer — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:52:23 +0000

And one more link with a little backing to it:

http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Moore-North-Pacific-Central-Gyre.htm

By: Ken Homer

Ken Homer — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:47:38 +0000

I too am blogging on this tragedy.

It breaks my heart to see the ocean treated as a toilet to be filled with toxic waste.

For those wanting image, try this BBC News Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8k__5wSnIA&feature=related

Thanks and keep getting the word out!

By: mark sweet

mark sweet — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:55:23 +0000

Can you produce the images? So far, I have been unable to find any on credible sites. I must caution you. If you would like to be considered credible, you must not throw just anything onto the web. People are becoming wary of false information and environmental issues are becoming more and more important so you don’t want to turn people off.

Good luck and I would love to see the images.