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Massive garbage patch discovered in Atlantic Ocean; 1,000 miles long

Someone once said " A median IQ of 100 is insufficient for the
dominant species of any planet."
What we need is a war against stupidity.

Just how much trouble is half a million 0.1 g bits of plastic spread over over a square mile? That's like a bottle cap every 30 feet. And that's at its densest point. Our yards should be so clean!

It's a problem because animal life ingests it and dies. It also releases toxic chemicals that interfere with reproduction. The surface of each plastic bit tends to attract other toxins in seawater, causing a more poisonous item than just the plastic bit itself.

For all of you that think this is no issue you total idiots as this has huge impact on animal life and water cleanliness. We are turning our oceans into floating land fills.

Put some tiny bits in a bowl & swirl it around. You'll see the tiny bits congregate in the middle. Same thing happening in all the oceans.

This is nothing new, "IF" one was to dig under these plastic bits you find much older stuff from centuries ago.

"For all of you that think this is no issue you total idiots as this has huge impact on animal life and water cleanliness." - no it doesn't. The concentrations are ineffective with the possible exception of the very central few hundred meters (in an ocean of millions of square miles) and not much sea life is living there other than phytoplankton that are unaffected.

"It's a problem because animal life ingests it and dies." - please cite your study proving that statement. I know of no properly reviewed study showing ingestion deaths from microscopic plastic bits. Your statement sounds alot like a specious modification of a real study in which people haters changed the facts to fit their agenda. The target at that time was plastic bags and those ring thingys that sixpacks are held with.

In fact the single biggest killer of sea life is plastic fishing nets and lines that get away from their owners and drift about the sea. Fact.

"People haters?" What kind of deniers statement is that supposed to be?
As we kill the natural balance of the oceans by our using it as a garbage
dump, like it or not, deny it or accept it, we're a part of nature and we need
it to function correctly. Overfishing, garbage and toxins pollution, CO2
acidification, erosion, and other man-made destructive influences are
changing the oceans, and definitely not for the betterment of mankind.

Oceanographer and author, Curtis Ebbesmeyer, is quoted:

"These debris fields are a natural phenomenon, he explained, noting that
they collect anything which floats, including trees, volcanic pumice
fragments, and seeds. Harmful man-made flotsam, such as plastic resin
pellets, is also accumulating in them and posing a threat to marine life,
Ebbesmeyer warned. As plastic breaks down to grain-size particles, it
blends in with plankton and infects the food chain, he added."

His website: http://flotsametrics.com/

Understand that? The man-made garbage of micro-PLASTIC floating in the
ocean ultimately INFECTS THE FOOD CHAIN. And ocean currents eventually
wash it on shore somewhere, years later. Get off the planet ASAP if you
can't accept and deal with its harsh realities. Denials are not a welcome or
necessary part of the solutions.

NEW ENERGY FIND? Has anyone looked at recycling these patches? The organics and the plastics are hydrocarbons, an energy source, and raw material for us. Maybe with grants and tax breakes to get the ball rolling this could break even and eventually be a valuable deposit. Heck, we might have to go to court to claim it as ours! What would be the cost of making it into fuel and raw stock? It might qualify as a green alternitive energy. If this could work it would pay it's own way for cleaning up a small part of our mess.

How can something so big be cleaned up effectively? Garbage patches in the Atlantic, Pacific, Oceans and Oil in the Gulf of Mexico. We really need to take our troops in the middle east and use them for garbage pickup and oil pickup in these oceans before it kills us all.

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