Waste disposal has certainly always been an area of concern.
Waste disposal has certainly always been an area of concern.What methods have been chosen however, appears to be the least resistance to cost factors.
An entry by Jeffrey Goodman :: Titled Oceans Of Garbage Claims that the largest dump in the world isn’t outside New York or London or Shanghai
but in a desolate stretch of the Pacific Ocean nearly a thousand miles from the nearest island.
Held together by a slowly rotating system of currents northeast of Hawaii,
the Eastern Garbage Patch is more than just a few floating plastic bottles washed out to sea;
the Patch is a giant mass of trash-laden water nearly double the size of Texas.
The Article Also States That :: The Eastern Garbage Patch is just the most obvious manifestation of the amount of pollution filling the seas.
Even though seventy percent of plastic items will eventually sink, the UNEP estimates there are 46,000 pieces of marine debris for every square mile of all the world’s oceans.
Nearly four fifths of this garbage has been carried from litter on land, washed into storm drains, or floated down rivers. The problem, of course, is plastic and its nearly complete resistance to the elements.
Able to last indefinitely in seawater, plastics will continue to plague the Eastern Pacific long after new solutions have been adopted on land.
What’s Your Viewpoint?
Top Comments:
* Manly Table Says: August 17th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Altered Oceans… LA times.com is running a fantastic web series on the destruction of the ocean. The overall quality is not quite discovery channel, but interesting none the less.
* Dave Lin Says: August 18th, 2006 at 12:44 am
See also:
www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2006/01/lost-and-found-fish.html
and
www. vestaldesign.com/blog/2006/01/plastics-as-marine-pollution.html
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