When is Then?

What goes around comes around and this sucks for our children. Our plastic waste act as chemical sponges attracting other man-made chemicals such as DDT, hydrocarbons, and pesticides expanding a toxic waste that is floating in our Pacific Ocean occupying an area twice the size of the continental United States. It would take several days of sailing to cut a short path through our “Sea of Debris” where I understand plastic particle debris is more plentiful than plankton. The world's largest rubbish tragedy stretches from about 500 miles off the Californian coast, across the Hawaiian Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches and all the way to within 500 miles of Japan. It moves around like an animal and when that animal comes close to Hawaiian archipelago, the Sea of Debris barfs, and you get a beach covered with this confetti of toxic plastic. Every little piece of plastic manufactured in the past 50 years of our know-how that made it into the ocean is still out there somewhere, breaking into smaller pieces, foreverish and is found in the guts of marine life, causes the deaths of more than a million seabirds every year, as well as more than 100,000 marine mammals. What goes into the ocean goes into these animals and feeds us, it's that simple. Plastic fish on a plastic plate, I wonder if it’s too late to stop our fate.
Thank You, Jim Raab http://jimraab.blogspot.com/

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic.html