Texas isn't so big anymore.

Why not collect it before it gets to the ocean and burn it, let it spin a turbine... that's just an engineering problem, put them on it.
 
That’s right, why recycle it into something like asphalt which causes roads to last longer. Then styrofoam can be frozen and crushed into a powder to absorb oil products floating on top of the water. Right, life goes on....but for only so long !!!
Why not just keep doing things the way we always have been ????

:whip:
 
The plastic continues to break down into smaller and smaller pieces which sounds like a good thing,but eventually it gets inside of living tissue and could potentially disrupt a considerable bit of ocean life. I suppose that isn't a big deal either to some.
 
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Mr Trash Wheel Will Save Us!!

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Frannie
 
The plastic continues to break down into smaller and smaller pieces which sounds like a good thing,but eventually it gets inside of living tissue and could potentially disrupt a considerable bit of ocean life. I suppose that isn't a big deal either to some.

Then there is what happens to the insides of our intestines after consuming small peices of plastic....that was in the fish that so many poor people need to eat !!!
 
Have it your way.

While you're at it, why don't you "unlike" the folks who decided that paper and cardboard containers were going to eliminate our forests, so they traded them in for the plastic you so despise. Now some of those forests are loaded with dead or dying trees that might have been harvested for lumber and or paper products that WILL degrade, but instead are fodder for these nice massive forest fires we've had the past few years.
 
Last year my son sailed in the Transpac race (LA to Honolulu) he encountered this trash, constantly. The racing boats (100-200 returning to LA) lined up to map (in a parallel fashion) the trash on their return trip to LA. It's out there ... not aliens ... trash ... our trash.
 
Have it your way.

While you're at it, why don't you "unlike" the folks who decided that paper and cardboard containers were going to eliminate our forests, so they traded them in for the plastic you so despise. Now some of those forests are loaded with dead or dying trees that might have been harvested for lumber and or paper products that WILL degrade, but instead are fodder for these nice massive forest fires we've had the past few years.

Your missing too much information in your assessment when it comes to the assessment of what use to be our forests. William Randolph Hearst is responsible for the paper industry based upon wood products and the instigator of ilegalizing hemp as the base product for paper that was the main cash crop for farmers and one of the reasons why people today are eating corporate food laced with chemicals. Then because of wood being harvested at an accelerated rate mercury was used in mill ponds to stop wood from splitting from water absorption while sitting in the water and now that mercury is in the lower depths of the ocean challenging our food supply right along with small particles of plastic that will make fish unetible. Plastic in our lives is due to the oil industry oligarchies...

Sure forests need to be thinned out and used in the construction of homes by way of a safe method, but when it comes to the proliferation of economic successes.....nothing is sacred !!!

Not even your health......
 
My wife has been volunteering at our recycling center in our little corner of Alaska and recently the amount of money we can get for clean plastics containers has dropped to near zero.

China's not taking it from us coupled with cheap petroleum is going to make the plastic issues worse, at least in the short term.

I saw a slideshow last earth day showing the huge amounts of debris washed up on Alaska's beaches. In many places it looks like berms dozed up along the tidewater. Since Alaska has twice the coastline as the rest of the country combined there's unfathomable amounts laying out there with no one around to pick it up except near communities which are very sparce. It's really an incredible mess, and the earthquake into Japan really added to it. Most of it will be laying out there into perpetuity as mankind's legacy.
 
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