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It's not an island twice the size of Texas. But it is severely impacting marine life and human health... and incredibly hard to study.
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"Henderson Island is a tiny, uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 3,000 miles from major population centers. Though it is half the size of Manhattan, more than 19 tons of trash litter its white, sandy beaches. Researchers estimate that it has the highest concentration of debris of any place in the world, for a total of over 37 million pieces on the entirety of the small island. For every square meter you walk, on average you’ll find 672 pieces of trash. For each visible piece of debris on the beach in the video above, two pieces are buried in the sand. How does so much trash wash ashore on Henderson Island?"
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"Ocean plastic has, in a pretty short time, become a surprisingly potent international environmental movement.For one, there’s more awareness now about the astounding quantity of plastic - between 4.7 and 12.8 million metric tons - floating around in the ocean. As the World Economic Forum put it, this volume is 'equivalent to dumping the contents of one garbage truck into the ocean per minute.' But what about large-scale, long-term plastic reduction? Shouldn’t we also be working toward that?"
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"THE WORLD HAS a plastic pollution problem and it’s snowballing-but so is public awareness and action.
Each year, an estimated 18 billion pounds of plastic waste enters the world’s ocean from coastal regions. That’s about equivalent to five grocery bags of plastic trash piled up on every foot of coastline on the planet. New research is emerging apace about the possible long-term impacts of tiny pieces of plastic on the marine food chain-raising fresh questions about how it might ultimately impact human health and food security. The world is waking up to a crisis of ocean plastic-and we're tracking the developments and solutions as they happen."
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Next time you go out, take a Geiger counter, you think the garbage patch in the Pacific is bad. The Fukushima radiation all over the Pacific is even worse
A week is not enough.... Raise awareness till the problem is sloved.
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One thing I don't see in these programmes is how the plastic gets in to the water. Is it from ships, is it from people leaving things on the beach, is it from litter blowing about in the street? I'm not sure how a laundry basket would make it from land to ocean. They always say the simplest explanation is usually the right one. The laundry basket fell off a boat in rough weather?
Just wanted to point out that not all plastics are destined to defy decay. Some are actually destined to biodegrade. Not all plastics are made the same. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradable_plastic I'm not trying to dispute your findings, just pointing out a flaw before someone tried to use it to discredit everything else you said.
We need to delete the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and download the Clean Ocean Patch.
agreed
Master Therion The devs need to work on this broken patch with another update tbh
we need to reset the game.
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just use SeaCleaner
when I was a young boy back in the late 60s and 70s. most things were packaged in paper bags and glass. everyone wanted store's to stop using paper to save the trees. plastic was the answer to everything. appliances were lighter. tools , cars, etc. now look what we have done.
@Donald Kasper i dont know if you're being sarcastic but that will get you harmful smokes that will pollute the atmosphere
@@zhouyiwei112 Better the air than the water, right?
They have smokless chimneys now because of the filters they use
@@ShainAndrews nonetheless it's a horrible idea it doesn't reduce pollution
@@zhouyiwei112 How do we know if we don't try?
The problem is that even if you want to use less plastic, you literally can not buy almost anything without it. Food especially
In many cities with food co-ops, there are people going on no-plastic diets. After an initial investment in your setup, you actually save money and often lose weight, too, unless you work in splurge days or times of day into your diet. You have to change what and where and when you eat, but it can be done. In other places, it is possible to reduce the amount of plastic you use to eat, aka low-plastic diets. In a shared house that I lived in in the greater Seattle area, we had a shared kitchen that barely used any plastic. We had gigantic glass jars full of cereal we would buy from the bins in the grocery store rather than from boxes. We had reusable cloth bags for fruit and vegetables. We would buy giant bags of frozen chicken and salmon from Costco once every month or so. We had a small kitchen garden in the backyard which was great!
All you need to do is go to a local farmers market with a reusable grocery bag
Depends what you are eating, and where you are buying it. It is a bit more painful, but you can buy food without plastic. Bringing your own bags always helps.
Hahah everyone here be like: "oh is totally doable" sure, if you have time and money.
use reusable bags, use bamboo toothbrushes, buy produce with reusable muslim bags and you really can minimize a lot of your plastic waste
I am very proud that there are still people who care about the environment
Go vegan 👍
@@uncoiledfish2561 it won't help the environment anyway
@@hesh9646 well if one person does it nah it will not but if we all change our lifestyles by eating less meat or sopping meat consumption at all there will be an effect, ofc we'll have to use less plastic turn the lights of yk all that stuff eating less meat will have an effect but it won't be enough
@@hesh9646 Thanks to people who think like you do it wont
@@ThrashTillDeth83 that implies you're a vegan too I'm assuming. Even if we were to become vegans, isn't it more costly to raise vegan foods than raising animals tho?
wood toothbrush, metal straw, beeswax for takeaway, cloth tote bags, etc. but companies need to stop making them because people sometimes have no choice but to buy them
marvin raphael monfort people still believe corporate America has all the answers they are killing us all one way or the other
all good ideas, but wood tooth brush would not work as wood is porous so it would be extremely unhygienic. But its a start
marvin raphael monfort how do you think people brush their teeth 600 years ago ? 1000 years ago ? With toxic plastic ? Humans been around for a long time wake up . Cavities are cause by high sugars and toxic stuff in our modern day corporate foods
@@briancoolman6260 I use one and it's perfectly durable. Try it for yourself
@@johnb3599 ok I guess. I honestly haven't ever heard of wood toothbrushes so I don't really know much about them, I can understand its benefits. just my thoughts is that putting a piece of wood getting it wet and putting it in your mouth is kind of gross. due to the fact that wood is porous and will hold moisture and eventually mold. unless it is treated with some safe thing for consumption. would genuinely like to know .
Nobody: Flat Earthers: Just push it off the Earth!
Why dont wr take the garbage.. and push it somewhere else!
As I understand it, the FE model has an ice wall, not a waterfall cliff, so pushing it off couldn't be a thing to them either.
Josh Hadley are you a flat earther?
You forget about the great ice wall. That is why we can not do that!
FBI I mean, just throw it into the sun or into space. Boom. “The Space Garbage Patch.”
"No more plastic straws in paper just paper straws wrapped in plastic" -Tom Macdonald
Plastic continues to break into smaller and smaller pieces, but never actually goes away entirely. Most fish now have plastic in their tissue thanks to swimming around in this microscopic muck. But look on the bright side- at least it's not radioactive!
Well before 1994 radioactive waste was dumped straight into the ocean without any treatment. So it’s probably already is, you just don’t know it.
And then we eat those fishes, and the tiny plastic bits from the fishes enter our bloodstream. It may not be radioactive, but it's still definitely a problem
Imagine making a whale robot that autonomously eats trash in the ocean.
Insomnia Poltergeist what if a shark eats our whale
@@applepie8294 Then make a bigger whale!
Good idea. But will corrupt politicians and greedy corporates provide funds for such an initiative?
I'm now rich. thank you for the idea👍. Ill remember you when I strike it rich
@@danklyf4202 I guess you could retrofit a AI to a large ship remove all cabins so no one can steal it just an empty floating barge that can only be controlled by humans remotely in case the ai goes rogue or more likely gets struck by lightning, etc. Here's the kicker that will make a millionaire richer make its engine run on electricity with battery's that burn ocean plastic. Plastic has oil, a modern furnace will filter all smoke and produces almost no emissions. It would only have to come ashore when it over filled with plastic otherwise it's a perpetual autonomous machine we already have the technology to build it. The question now is how to tax other countries 🤔? Maybe GoFundMe? Maybe grants? Maybe the 51 state of merica is the ocean? Or China declares it a Provence saying they travelled this ocean first so it's theirs (it could happen)? Maybe we could transfer the trash to an electricity plant to burn instead of coal ? It would actually be cleaner. Also why aren't we using aluminum it's recyclable and easy to melt and reform infinitely ?
I literally got an ad about trash in the ocean before watching this
same
@@anniecharlton3955 me to
The reason this video popped up is because you watched the ad
Me to
Something about a bracelet
Things like this remind me of a video where in a public place instead of quick use plastic cups and straws their were metal cups and utensils that dispensed both hot and cold drinks and food. Instead of throwing it in the trash you dumped out whatever you didn't eat or drink and returned it to the machine to be washed and reused. Places that don't let you fill your own containers with food or water are also a part of the issue because they want control over portions and consumption of specific products. Or the issue of possible cross contamination and or unclenly customer containers.
We need to reduce garbage disposal and the use of plastics in daily life.
why is every large area compared to Texas?
Cuz we big
Cuz texas thicccc
Alaska is bigger..
rotor rover -Hahahaha holly shit
+Toast It's only used in America. In metric countries we use Belgium.
Marketing idea for companies: How about instead of having individual soap bottles etc. in the shop, you have a 20 litre fill station. Sell a cool design multi-use bottle to the consumer and charge for refills. You don't change the gas tank for your car every time you fill up right? Why can't this be a thing for soaps, toothpaste, i.e. everything non-perishable.. or even food stuffs like spices etc. I just don't get how everyone got on the "no-straws" hype with little affect when this could be a really big thing. Companies could spend a lot less in packaging and shipping while still having great designs and marketing in the fill stations and the multi-use packages. Consumers would get the same thing but could also affect their own "shipping cost" by getting a bigger refillable container (a family of 5 really does not need or want to buy soap in less than litre size bottles). How is this not a thing?
Wow! That's a great idea! ...But think of the profit loss! You aren't just charged for shower gel but also the bottle it is contained within. This gives me an idea... Why not halve the size of shower gel bottles and charge roughly the same? Double the pollution, BUT double the profits!
People are too obsessed with being “clean”. I have heard that Japan has an issue with this. Too much stuff packaged for single use. The millennial generation has made it much worse!
I also had this idea a few months ago lol. I could see it working. It would definetly help on the "reduce" part
@Tyler McIntosh I wouldn't say only stupid people. Smart people can also think they're saving the world because they really want to believe the earth cares about them and that they're making a difference. When you believe you really want it to be reality. I think it's silly to say some people are smart and others are dumb. It all depends on what the goal is. If the goal is to win in ping pong then the person that won is considered smarter than the other because he completed the goal of winning a ping pong game in comparison to the person that didn't complete the goal. If the goal is to solve a rubix cube and the person who lost in the ping pong match solves the rubix cube and the person that won doesn't solve the rubix cube then the person that solves the rubix cube is smarter when it comes to solving rubix cubes. So intelligence is a person being able to complete a goal in comparison to someone who does not complete the goal at all or as well
@Tyler McIntosh what I was saying is intelligence is always associated with a goal. The opposite of intelligence and achieving goals is art. True art isn't trying to get anywhere. When you dance you aren't trying to get to a certain point of the dance floor. The whole point of the dance is the dance. When someone takes something seriously, they're trying to get somewhere. They're trying to achieve a goal. When someone jokes around and doesn't take things seriously, they're not trying to get anywhere in particular or achieve any goals. So to find out who's more intelligent. You first must figure what makes that person more intelligent. Whenever you determine who's more intelligent, there's always a goal involved. One goal could to be to more accurately predict the future than someone else 20 years from now. You would have to figure out what is considered to be a more accurate prediction. Then declare the winner when the time comes. Yes, ping pong is considered a skill. But there's still a goal involved. Therefore it is also associated with intelligence. You must ask yourself... What is the meaning of skill? When do we decide to use that term. The definition of skill according to Google is the ability to do something well. When i think of skill i think of coordination and physical activity involved. In order to do something well you need to have the comparison. The opposite of well. So when you do something well you are accomplishing a goal that someone else can't accomplish at all or not as well as you. Skill, intelligence, Smart. It's all the same thing in a way. They all involve goals. So next time you call someone dumb... really think of what you're saying. I mean when you think and talk you're really just applying symbols and sounds to the reality that you experience with your senses. Thinking really is just creating a map of reality
This has to stop. Stricter fines need to be imposed on people responsible for it getting into the ocean
In London it zero tolerance to litter. I drop my receipt leaving store, the enforcement officer take identification and i get fined £150 on spot !!
Whenever i get informed about this my anxiety rises to the sky
Same 😔😭
well you could contribute
@@xenny1061 I know, I try to as much as possible Like when I’m playing football with my friends I clean up the litter around the park
Just don't care about it
Same
Can't talk, going for a swim to get some Nikes.
I got it first
Worst comment I've ever saw lol this is so stupid😂
@Frankie Joseph ugly shoes
@@treelonmusk8324 is ur name actually dylan morrison lmao. if it is thats the same name as someone i know
Government must force companies to use biodegradabile plastics for packagings. The solution of the problem can’t come from single individuals only. It’s a macro solution that has to be taken. Poor us :(
Eric205gen actually compostable * some biodegradable don’t degrade in water and also don’t degrade in garbage sites due to the conditions the garbage is placed under
Not "poor us" poor animals...
James Bond poor everything on this planet and the planet itself :(
Hemp
Unfortunately, biodegradable plastic ends up breaking down into tiny pieces and not fully biodegrading unless under extreme heat. Maybe the only real solution is for us to use less and dispose less.
Whoever have watched this video, i hope we all can take this as a lesson for us to use less plastic and together, we can save our world.🤜🤛 😉
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go minimalism...and reuse, reduce and recycle.
Seeing the small fish species using floating plastic debris as a kind of reef shelter left me stunned. It's still a pollutant and trash, and I'm still and advocate for cleanup, but wow - it's amazing how life will find a way, and persist, and adapt. The larger pieces that are being left for tracking will serve a purpose for science and for some species, it seems.
hey guys, I have an idea to assist the ocean clean up. I have a fund raiser going and I need your support.
Derrhurderrrpderrr
We need to pay the fishermen who use nets to collect plastic instead of fish. A win/win.
Oby-1 if can imagine that reality show. Deep Sea Trash Divers.
somebody's gotta fish so we can eat genius
@@leoninenoble no fish needed. going plant-based is best for health, environment and animals! 🌱🌱
@@leoninenoble somebody has gotta stop fisherman over-fishing genius
@@j-sm4554 best for health? lmao alright fellas believe what you want
imagine going fishing and catching an air jordan 1
That would be sick, im starting tomorrow i hope i can find some jordan 4s
Whos jordan 1
@Black Wolf lmao what?
frick fishers
Computer User That’s kinda gross.
If shops had branded dispensers, it could drastically reduce rubbish allowing people to take their own containers to refill. This could be as easy as having a ticket/label dispenser stating which brand of shower gel it is for example and how much in ml was dispensed, this information could be printed as a QR code for till staff to just scan.
Honestly genius.
That would be a nightmare. Imagine lugging all your empty bottles into the store and then waiting in line forever behind who knows how many people making who knows how many messes. Kids/asshats would hit those dispensers constantly as a "joke." You'd never know how often they were getting cleaned/what was actually going into them. Ugh. I think we'd be better off improving biodegradable plastic and mandating that manufacturers use it for their products.
Maybe limiting or eliminating our use of disposable plastics will be the best way to clean it up
imagine if nestle alone stopped producing plastic bottles. imagine
that would be cool since their water tastes terrible anyway
Robert Spikes chances are, they are a parent company of the water you buy at your local store
@@loganw3298 maybe
Nestle is too concerned about selling you back your god-given right of water that they get from up streams. They steal water from the locals people. So the state they're in the water runs downhill. They bought the property closest to the source of Mountain Water. So in turn the residence downhill get the Leftovers dribble of water from nestle. We'll be buying air next.
and Coca Cola and PEPSI and its trademarks
The optimism from the end of the video is out of place, everything you buy in th supermarkets is packed in way to much plastic. In my town (500000 people) there is just one so-called zero waste shop. Politics reacts too slowly, consumer behavior as well.
Thank you so much for sharing tis information. Happy New Year!
A while back I had the chance to help a buddy doing fish gut content analysis. The fish were all caught offshore. We were blown away by the fact that every single fish we looked inside of had consumed plastic. Not a single fish was found without plastic in its stomach!
Creepy.
I've heard of that before. Apparently birds too like they would eat caps or people would kill them and shove garbage in them, its disgusting.
@@joonietoony yes, most animals have a limited sense of colors, this is why we can hunt hogs in flashy yellow/orange jacket to let walkers notice hunters, in example. Birds can be cheated by the shape of debris 'cause they can't percieve properly their unusual colors. This is an interesting topic i advice you to let do some further researches about it. Cheers.
That's sad
Please read my comment above and share my idea. Let’s go viral.
when my grandma was young, the invention of plastic was considered one of the best things ever... oh, how much it has changed since then
It is still one of the best things ever happened to humans. Transformed and saved billions lives.
It still is. People are the problem, not plastic.
Humans are stupid, see above comments for evidence.
@@bobhope884 Above comments I see names. Above the last one - yours. A-ha! You got the point! Q.E.D. :)))
@@matrenitski Plastics ENTIRE LIFE CYCLE is poisonous.. not that great..
What's sad is that this problem has been known for years, facts and evidence have been ignored and the problem was allowed to grow due to greed and a lack of accountability
On both the Big Island of Hawaii and the island of Kauai had one or two beaches that because of the currents, the plastic accumulated and covered several acres at least. Kauai beaches had some beaches that were blue red and green very small particles until they ground down to invisible. Hawaii island has a beach that coughs up so much plastic that it's known as garbage or plastic beach instead of its Hawaiian name, Kamilo beach, by many people. There are some remote camping places in these areas and when the campers light their camp fires, acres of beach under the trees and in the bushes catch fire and black smoke rises for a few days. This happens every year or two. I hauled a truck load of plastic to the local transfer station and it stayed there for several years before it was shipped to Oahu and burned.
It is funny how Walmart uses plastic packaging for metal straws.
ya, they should use aluminium foil for that
I bought my metal straws in a little cotton bag and I've seen them packed in cardboard boxes
People that use straws suck.
When we stop buying from China Walmart will have to start getting it's products from USA like it used to. When I heard about the straw thing, I have to admit, I did not want to give up my straws! I have oucheee teeth and drinking hurts often, but after watching this video, I'm making a change!
@@lindahopper6483 Some people with disabilities need single use straws, and some cant afford reusable ones. Some people do have reasons.
The most significant cause of plastic pollution is that no government is serious about educating people about potential disaster, cause by plastic. We should teach all generations about these, otherwise Mother Nature teaching will be merciless.
well, the majority of people in the western world understand that it's stupid to throw their shit into the water. www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting-the-oceans-the-most/ 90% of plastic in the ocean comes from 10 rivers and none of those is in the USA or Europe, all that these countries need is a trash-infrastructure similar to that of Europe. Right now there are no laws about trash nor any trash-burning facility, so people are responsible for the trash themselves, and throwing it into the water is the easiest and cheapest option.
CG Crazy she will punish our asses.
CG Crazy the worst thing is that we're literally turnign our water into acid.
CG Crazy BTW, Sweden recycles 97% of the trash they have, and turns it into heat. The bad thing about this is that they import tons of waste from Norway And Denmaek.
yaa about ''mother nature'' we have more laws in place for natural disasters then polution and it does not really effect me and i would not gain anything from not useing plastic i live in austria so plastic and other waste have there own bags so they get recyled in a way i have done more then most of you have even if its unitentional but tbh human life is nothing to me just anothere ant that lives makes mistakes and dies i dont care about anyone other then myself and i only do things that benefit me so plastic waste means nothing to me and same goes for nature and animals
I think all shipping ships need to be involved in this project. Great work thanks.
The irony trying to put a satellite in space to track ocean plastic meanwhile some other organizations is trying to track and fight space debris
I don’t throw my toothbrushes, I use them for cleaning stuff
I don't throw them I just toss them away
but someday you'll have to throw them away and then you can buy a bamboo brush maybe :)
I use one toothbrush for a year. Still have to throw it away eventually. So it still counts! I need to switch to bamboo brush!
@@naturewanderer1609 reducing is always a good start :) but a bamboo brush is really the better option, everyone can make a difference with their choices
Try bamboo based toothbrush. Bamboo everything is amazing 👌
In Australia most grocery stores and departments stores have stopped giving single use plastic bags and some food chains have stopped giving plastic straws.
Bella Darla they do that in Cali and they really needs to come up with better straw options My straw decomposed before I finished my Starbucks
I once went to a pizza/pasta restaurant and they used long pasta tubes as straws 😂 we just need to get creative
Grocery stores do that in California too
they need to do that in florida bc they keep using plastic bags at every grocery stores
And you feel like that will make the difference? The overwhelming majority of ocean pollution is from Southeast Asia, not Western countries.
“Geez America stop polluting the ocean.” *pulls Chinese wrapper out
You notice they used American market stock photos when complaining about consumers not CHINESE MARKETS
The worst part is so many contries are involved it would be very difficult to have all them do their part in fixing corruption is rampant in many countries
Can I join you folks to clean up.... I hate my customer service job taking calls 😡😡. Atleast cleaning up the ocean is a worth while thing to do. Lot more sensible
For real, if this was government funded I would love to do this
www.theoceancleanup.com/careers/ It took Google 0.11234 seconds to find this; I just clicked the first link. If you are seriously passionate about this try other searches more suitable to your locale and abilities. Don`t just think...DO!! Or take customer calls....whichever makes you happier.
@@ninjacrumbs The issue with stating "it's just a google search away" is most of these projects require you to have a college/university degree applicable to the field. There are people out there whom are passionate about these causes but are unable to make any meaningful in-roads due to artificial road blocks that have been set in place due to the education system failing the majority of the population are creating loops to jump through that just aren't getting the best out of people.
Im homeless due to no fam. Imma just walk to these places to help
So many new jobs could be created to fix this earth ending problem. NOW
Reduce, reuse, recycle! Thank you for focusing on this problem!
don't forget refuse where possible.
Jack Johnson
That is a good motto and one at an old company I worked for, but the fuckers wasted so much plastic and would have the sprinklers on everyday mostly sprinkling the parking lot even when it rained.
First big corporations need to ship and package their consumer products in actual recyclable plastics. As long as companies like Coca Cola are still using non recyclable plastics for their bottles claiming it will take a lot of effort to change (When there are plenty of other companies that have switched over years ago, like Rivela). This will remain a problem. Sure collecting plastic separately is already a thing in a lot of countries. However because the collected plastics is a mixed bag of recyclable and non recyclable plastics it's very hard and inefficient to actually recycle anything from it. So most of that collected plastic ends up being burned or dumped on landfills anyway like regular trash.
If only recycling where better... The energy requirements for sorting melting and processing plastics as well as the energy required to transport the trash thousands of miles to a recycling plant have made recycling more expensive and worse for the environment than using newly refined petroleum byproduct.
Sad to see marine life chilling with plastic in the middle of the ocean
Just like you surrounded by it in your house and environment.
6:47 "Material scientists are turning their attention to new packaging solutions and consumers are making more informed choices everyday." That's great, I wonder what the plastic manufacturers are doing?
There is literally a biodegradable plastic made from hemp but the world governments are keeping it down cuz weed bad It takes only a few months to decompose into soil
Use Less and Eat Local...but so hard these days..
When I was a lad my glass bottles were worth money if you took them back to the shop that sold it why not restart it with milk bottles ect
"Adam Ruins Everything" discussed why Coke and Big Business prefers plastic pollution.
@@lanarober8952 yeah that's a reliable source. Where's the hair gel come from he puts on his hair a plastic bottle!
Avalon Dairy does that.
etc.
Some liquor stores still do this, got around 70$ doing it too.
Someone please buy me a yacht and I'll sail around the oceans and gather all the plastic I can.
Andrii Povkh Ok, will you need a helipad on it as well? Never mind, ill add it on just in case.
Huck Finn is that you?
Andrii Povkh $1 dollar.
Andrii Povkh would you like it to be in solid gold or plastix?
That's ok but don't forget to catch me some fishes.....
y'all are heroes thank you.for all you do 😊💚💙💚💙
Showing this to my 5th graders in Oklahoma! Thank you!!
Together, we can do anything. Let's take good care of our home.
why should we? what would i gain from doing that?
ADOLF HITLER i don’t know maybe being alive
@@thebitch9224 I know that what I keep telling people, we are not doing this for earth we are doing it for us. You really think the earth will die by Lil plastic, not. we gonna die just like the dinosaurs. And in 10,000 years or more thing is going back to normal and it going to be like we will never here.
@@youmomin4 i never meant earth i meant myself idc about others when i die everyone else can die with me i could not care less about them i am gonna die in 50 years max so why should i care its not gonna effect our lives that much in this 50 years so i dont see a reason why i should care ...
@frank rizzo that's exactly why everything is going to shit, that's the PROBLEM
We did this, we can undo it!
Bruno Paradis We’ve gone to far
Curt L It’s more of the opposite, Paris climate agreement, the US isn’t in it but everyone else is
No we can't, because the vast majority of plastics in the ocean come from garbage countries with low education, mostly from Asia...shocking, I know..
It's already too late, everything is contaminated. How are we going to capture the trillions of microplastics that are dispersed all over the ocean and the rest of the earth? Even the tires of our vehicles are shedding them all over the planet every single day in unimaginable quantities and there isn't an alternative.
Bruno Paradis Maybe we can. Just because "we" as a species caused it doesn't mean we as a species can undo it. That's not an equation that equals out.
I'm amazed that never before have I stumbled upon or anyone mentioned about this island until today, holy shit
great vid!helping environment is serving to all species.And thanks😁 though , i wonder if those gps trackers have been catched by fisherman's net
Imagine all the junk that doesn’t float
Lord Ot imagine when you realize there’s 3x as much Area in the ocean than on land. Just think of how vast the ocean is. I’m not saying that it’s ok by any means
Straight down in the abyss
@@TheBagFumbler imagine thinking that all the plastic is located in one spot where there isnt any life and therefore think its ok. It's the complete opposite
Wild G4MING read my whole comment dumbass
@@TheBagFumbler stfu just because the ocean is big doesnt mean shit the junk spreads in the ocean killing a shit ton of life
Use plastic, they said, save a tree they said.........
Yeah, the peer-reviewed science got updated. Hate that, but it's necessary. BTW, they have citations with web links in the Description below this video. Click on the title!
Hey use jute bags😀
I just recently watched a video that they are coordinating a massive clean up at the great pacific garbage patch I sure hope it helps some
@I change my name every month Ocean Cleanup, look up Boyan Slat
Thank you for your work and reporting!
Cleaning ocean while polluters are polluting it doesn't sound like good solution, it all leads to square one.
Which means more efforts need to be done to to help clean up the world instead of wasting it
no it doesn't. They're trying to save the ocean wildlife plants & fish.
It starts with us. 🙏
OneShortGamer - it’s called a vicious circle ⭕️ and useless unless you get to the offenders - but what do you do about the victims of tsunami when it washes out people’s homes and everything on it to the ocean -
@@nomorewar4189 Ocean does what we do to ocean.
Humans cause it's own extinction. Sad.
Not really. We're smart enough. So we'll find a way. The animals won't get so lucky.
@@ryanjensen5897 I wish this is truth. Unfortunatly we are not. If we were smart, we will never get to this point my friend. Just look at our TV commercials and you can see where we are heading.
@@ErykSpace And people like you do nothing about it hahahaha
@@Chefmajor234, just wondering what you have done except watching the KZhead.
@@ErykSpace Same goes for you bud. What do i do?? not be a littering piece of crap
thank you for caring about our waters and its life of animals
I wish that you'd mention the biggest problem about plastic in the ocean. and that is fishing nets and plastic fishing gear which accounts for more then 50 percent of plastic found in the ocean the best thing people can do to prevent the ocean from filling with plastic is to quit eating fish.
0:04 Resting perch for sea birds. 0:15 Substrate for barnacles. 0:18 Shelter, shade and meeting place for small fish.
Zero plastic law is help for a clean ocean. and discipline our self. That the reason why I always bring my bag for grocery shopping and recycle Plastic for planting. And all kitchen waste I make that soil for my organics garden. box etc. .less waste. Hope so many people thinking about recycling
I'm going completely plastic free! I love it! I use plastic wrap alternatives with cloth beeswax wraps and bamboo toothbrushes and bars of shampoo and conditioner. It definitely gives a feeling of rest to your soul❤️ I'm glad I can finally see someone else who is putting forth that kind of effort! 🙌
Bambi Palmer try amazon! Ethique has good reviews and is good for dry hair leaving it soft and no build up afterward.
lol zero plastic? id bet the clothes youre wearing contain more plastics than you imagine & yet there are many uses of plastic everyone could do without - we did it before we should do it again -
The I creasing city life is worst for planet. In our Indian culture our festivals n all our daily routine is connected with nature. But sadly people are dumping that tradition n adopting to western culture of creating waste. The wrong interpretation of our rituals is slowly eating us back. Each of us bring a culture. And I want all of us to create a culture which is based on saving energy n less / no pollution.
and the plastic grows into you food.
I know there are "plastics " being developed for consumer packaging and products. There are no refill stores in my area. Some delis have switched to coated paper. Something has to be done about plastic bottles for everything. I now buy laundry detergent in cardboard boxes. Very difficult to shop. I use a litre Brita bottle in my kitchen and take my own bags to the grocery stores. Feeling hopeful after watching Ocean Clean Up and 4OCEAN crews solutions to help. Thankful for Boyan Slat and his river interceptors .
Yet all the attention (and squabbling) is spent on CO2. Thanks for the videos!!! 🌊🌊🌊
Hemp plastics decay quick and non toxic
@Liam Hanafin look i grew up in kansas and there is plunty of land that isnt farmed bc the gov. You have to have atleast like 16 acres, thats a shit load of unused land
@Liam Hanafin they used to grow hemp during ww2
@Liam Hanafin here in kansas
That's a real thing?
@@chalseywilder937 yes
I no longer use single use shopping bags but only because the supermarkets stopped supplying them because of federal legislation. The main reason single use plastics has become such a big problem is not because of consumer demand but rather because of corporations looking for ways to offer higher convenience in an attempt to gain a competitive edge. I think the most effective way to reduce the plastic problem is to legislate disincentives for consumer suppliers to offer disposable plastics an incentives to offer more eco friendly alternatives. Unfortunately consumers will always take the easiest and most convenient way and so the problem will never be solved at the consumer level.
No, the only reason plastic is a problem is people breaking the law. The manufacturing of plastic bags is far better than paper for the environment. It's the not littering and not recycling that makes plastic worse.
@@lordgarion514 Well, no. The Problem of Plastic is, that it is mixed with all kinds of other stuff. Glass Bottles are way more eco friendly compared to Plastic Bottles and Tetra Paks. And the problem is exaclty what baarni said, coropations looking for ways to offer higher convenience and people being dumb, wether its a plasctic or a paperbag. Just get some long lasting cotton Bags and store them in handy places ready to use
@@metallsimon No glass ain't. The amount of resources to make and ship it compared to plastic is staggering. There's more than one kind of bad for the environment. And what's in fossil fuels, especially coal, is seriously bad for the environment, and our health (you should look up those numbers... Staggering). Fossil fuels harm basically all forms of life, plastic in the ocean is quite a bit more limited in comparison. And it'll be both easier and cheaper to filter large quantities of plastic out of the ocean, thereby reducing harmful affects than trying to make a dent in cleaning up all the extra fossil fuel poisons that would have been released if we had kept everything glass. Having to clean this mess up doesn't automatically make the problems associated with the way it used to be done any less of a problem. And never mind the fact that we're already running out of sand, so much so that there are black markets for sand in the world. That's a serious problem. Imagine if we'd have stayed full glass all these decades. Even with the best recycling efforts we'd still need to make millions of pounds of new glass a year. Then there's the digging and shipping of the sand to make the glass. They use waste methane for most plastics(that come from fossil fuels). It's free because they have to take a bunch out of most natural gas because too much methane makes the flame too hot, and it would not cook well on a stove.
@@metallsimon But yes, people see dumber than dirt. And bad humans. It's not that hard to recycle plastic, especially the single use plastics like bags. In fact, it's downright easy considering almost every grocery store has a recycling bin for that type of plastic.
@Mr. X If your clothes end up in a landfill at the end of their life, it doesn't matter what they're made of. Nothing breaks down in a landfill. They even dig up 100+ year old newspapers that are still perfectly readable.
"We dont know where this plastic came from" Sees Chinese Label on the bottle
You are actually a dumbass
China makes a lot products, that doesn’t mean THEY’RE the ones who are throwing it in the ocean.
Karla Delgado wtf every garbage ends in the ocean, it is not about who tossed it or produced it, it is about the way we all produce our materials
Who never bought a chinese branded and labeled product on US, Right? or In Germany, maybe even in Brazil! Did you guys put your brain in a jar?
@@apprenticeofgaravel Most of the plastic in the ocean came from asian rivers
this is so powerful. could have your permission to use some of your video footage for an environmental awareness project?
Yes, go ahead if for a purely ecological cause.
@@TurreTuntematon 😆😆why you acting like it's yours?
Tbh i’m glad many schools in japan try to help the economic system by making the students avoid using too much electricity, always taking an eco bag with them, avoid using plastics and a lot more. I think other schools in other countries should participate in helping the eco system too
It hurt my heart when you seen all of the fishes near all the plastic💔
Why do you think the fish are swimming underneath the floating crates and nets? The fish don't see it as garbage, the see a cool hiding place witch they use for yeaeaears. Until these guys take it out. Destroying there hiding place 😖
Bram Tigtech dummy the plastic is killing them
Bram Ruijter u dumb
@@808fishman8 no it doesn't kill them. Well not him the fish in the video but it does kill bigger fish and whales and turtles
It's habitat.
You are doing great work. When are you deploying to other garbage patches?
In many cities with food co-ops, there are people going on no-plastic diets. After an initial investment in your setup, you actually save money and often lose weight, too, unless you work in splurge days or times of day into your diet. You have to change what and where and when you eat, but it can be done. In other places, it is possible to reduce the amount of plastic you use to eat, aka low-plastic diets. In a shared house that I lived in in the greater Seattle area, we had a shared kitchen that barely used any plastic. We had gigantic glass jars full of cereal we would buy from the bins in the grocery store rather than from boxes. We had reusable cloth bags for fruit and vegetables. We would buy giant bags of frozen chicken and salmon from Costco once every month or so. We had a small kitchen garden in the backyard which was great!
Meanwhile I quit my job and binge watching on KZhead
Same
How's things 3 months later? Have you been forced to find another job yet?
RIP Andy we almost made it Fam
Can't we just go back to using glass? It's made from sand, surely that's cheaper and more environmentally friendly than harvesting oil for plastics
Callen Bray I think we’re also ‘running out of sand’
It's expensive, harder to make, and ends up in the same places as plastic.
Casey Shartley the problem is how the materials break down. Most glass is non toxic when it breaks down so poses no real problems for the environment. Plastic is toxic, so even if it eventually breaks down, the micro plastic make water and soil toxic for all plants and animals.
@@ethanmaxwell5058 broken glass seems more dangerous than plastic bags
Casey Shartley not really. There are sharp objects (rocks, tree bark, thorns,etc) all throughout nature so it doesn’t pose more of a threat than what’s already there. Also after a few years of erosion they smooth out and become basically clear/coloured rocks until they completed break down.
The hardest part is that without plastic, deaths from food poisoning, and medical cross contamination would be increased exponentially
Strategic placement of floating recycling rigs with deep submersible crafts, cranes etc, for heavy metals
Imagine how many jobs we could create and ground breaking technological advancements we could make if we took even half of the USA military budget and put it towards cleaning efforts.
Imagine how many jobs we would reduce if we cut back half our military! Not to mention the cutback on our national security!!
@@baptistgirl2003 "national Security" yeah sure, sell more weapons to enemies and say that again stupid merca
Preach
We would be destroyed by our many enemies. But nobody wants higher taxes in order to clean the oceans
The trash isn't dumped by the United States. Look for a video Rubish dumped in the Amazon River. I've seen the dumping first hand. Poor countries treat the ocean like a trash can.
Who ever throws plastic into the ocean on that boat has to brush his/her teeth with that tooth brush.
Miyoung Cho they’re just taking what they find out there, putting a tracking device on it, and putting it back out... that’s not that bad
Karma!
Great Pacific garbage patch really good video. Our truley deserve our attention it is our life line.
Wonderful video. Thanks for sharing. We have stopped using One Time Use plastic since last 3 years. We are going zero plastic use soon. But really looking forward the law and policymakers to enforce some laws around plastic production on this planet.
I hope so 🥺
Thanks for posting and continuing the work with this big job ahead of us. I'm on one of the islands in the middle of the Pacific. Our beaches are seeing much of the plastics and our volunteers keep on cleaning!
hey guys, I have an idea to assist the ocean clean up. I have a fund raiser going and I need your support.
"consumers are making better choices" don't bring consumers into this, they have the limited choice that companies put out. Companies should be held responsible for every container they make. They are indeed the ones making it, and usually just so they can get a bit of money. Screw your money, like you've screwed our planet.
Consumers are everybit as liable. Companies exist to make profits which are derived from consumers, if the demand falls then why would the companies continue to supply? Throwing the blame on another party isn't going to solve shit.
jhivan benoit companies have to make the product before the consumer has the option to buy it or not. Profit for the sake of profit is not an excuse or a justification.
Or you can stop buying from those companies?
MadAnili all companies? Capitalism in the neoliberal era is a gigantic web of corporations and production is so obscured that consumers literally cannot know what their dollar is sponsoring. Environmentally friendly products, vegan products, products where they say they’ll plant a tree if you buy them are sold by the same companies who sell the other products. It’s marketing and packaging. The only answer is democratic control.
@@allisondoak9425 not all companies have plastic packaging, usually companies that's started as environmentally friendly company will not have any packaging or paper (bonus point if it's recycled papers). Being environmentally friendly is getting popular at my place, i hope environmentally friendly companies will be bigger and more product varieties. Yeah Im not devoid from all plastics, but I try to buy all of my things without plastics. Government are the best way to lessen it, but it gotta start from somewhere
I just love the fact that Marshall's brother Marcus Eriksen is solving the problem
I hope we can do something to help fix this issue. 😔 I hope we can get robots to clean sections and log data (more efficient than people)
Litterly Got A "Save The Ocean" Ad After Clicking On This Video
Probably from 4ocean, a scam company
Dont you know your phone spies on you. It listens to everything you say, then puts adverts up about what you've been talking about. FACT.
@@andrewsmith-qk3tb bruh thats why i tape my cam, mic. And my school computer had a porn ad but i didnt watch anything wtf
I got a bumper sticker made of plastic that says 'Save the Earth'
Very powerful video . 6 years ago I start documenting the Bahamian environment. Sad to say today it’s not getting better. No real systems in place to keep the islands clean .
We no longer use plastic straws, we bought stainless steel straws this past summer. We also use gal bottles of water that we refill for .39cents(reuse of coarse) instead of one use water btls, and have a newer modern frig with a h2o filter. We have noticed a HUGE difference in those alone. Also think that POLITICAL MAIL FLYERS are a REALLY HUGE WASTE OF PAPER!!!! All of us need to voice our thoughts about that. Not only do politicians use thick, glossy,plastic coated, super $$$ paper, but so do many advertisers aswell. I call and complain about these issues alot to politicians.
Great video. This is how to mention about Ocean Plastic Pollution to our toddler (and young kids). They may not understand all of facts and knowledge, but we believe if we guide them the right behaviors to their surrounding environment, they will grow up being more resourceful citizens. @ @ #startyoung #savetheplanetforournextgeneration
When my son was about 4-5 I would take him to parks mostly or wherever we went & spent any amount of time. We'd get some plastic bags I kept in van & have a contest ......of who could collect the most trash. I wish everyone would pick up trash if it's in front of you. Who cares what idiots think! You know the ones who DONT care, etc!?!? Great video!!!
Why are we blaming consumers? We should be going after the big corporations to stop them at source
It’s a joke , theses companies are ruining the world
Only way corporations will do something is if governments will do something. But the corporations pay the government sooo...
It’s not just companies doing these it’s also us and we need to stop ourselves
Companies blame consumers, consumers blame companies... how about not search for someone to blame instead look for solutions to get this Problem out of the World. We Humans need to do something.
Companies don't make things to not sale. They make things because people buy those things. People don't buy it, and the companies won't make it. Why do they pollute? Because you pay them to it, that's why. If enough people care and stop buying their products, they'll change how they operate to.meet demand.
"Hemp, hemp hemp Plastic is biodegradable!!!"
william collinsworth It is.
Single use plastic is banned in my City. Its good that only recyclable plastics are made and it should be taken care that it's not dumped anywhere but recycled.
Very difficult to deal with this problem
BB Hell yess
New packaging solutions is great for the environment.
It must be an fascinating experience 🤔 😀 to know about the sea.
I must thank everyone for cleaning up the mother 👩 🙏 Ocean.
Hard to watch videos like this, but education is important in order to have a place to live.
Oh God I'm very thankful for everyone who's trying their best to protect mother nature
2:12 WAIT WHAT? Free Nike sneakers in the sea?
Craigslist ad : Second hand Nike's, never worn, got a bit wet once but still good
the left shoe is two thousand miles from the right shoe. lol good luck finding a left/right pair together.
No kidding. Unfortunately, left shoes and right shoes tended to drift to different beaches... but that didn't stop beachcombers from holding swap meets to try to put together a pair! 👟Just goes to shoe ya how crazy marine science is.
@Patrick Martin sign me up. when we leavin boss
"sneakerheads" STFU thats not a term and if it is; the person who created it, the people it refers to and anyone who uses it should be crucified.
“When you refuse single use plastics it makes a dramatic effect…” this rhetoric is OK, but it’s most certainly big corporations making the biggest difference in their choices. It’s not like we have a lot of options.
Patrick Moore should have been interviewed for this video. To be fair. And he is an environmentalist and ecologist.