was played on: July 16th, 2010
in: Toronto, Canada
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“Trash Gyre”
1 person thinks this is Nice! My Boom Boom card wanted me to look up "Trash Gyre" online and do some research on it. I had no idea what this was prior to my research, and have never heard of that term before. After watching videos online and reading article after article, I was shocked - not only at what I learned, but also that I have never even heard of this before.
The "Trash Gyre" is also known as the North Pacific Gyre, and it is essentially a garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean, which collects from all over the world. There's approximately 7 million tons of floating plastic waste in this whirlpool-like area, collecting in the certer and forming a trash heap. It is said that it spans an area twice the size of Texas!!
It is so troubling to know that when you throw out plastic water bottles (which thankfully, I have stopped using a long time ago) and other plastic garbage, you really don't give it much thought to where it actually ends up! But plastic is 100% nonbiodegradable, and it will stay on our planet forever. What's even more troubling is that I learned that most animals, mistake the plastic for food - causing death to the animals and thus, effecting the entire ocean's food chain, and ours (think about it.. when we eat fish.. whatever they have injested is now going into our bodies!) Yuck!
It was very eye-opening to read about this, and I recommend that everybody just take five minutes and learn about it - hopefully it will make you think twice about using/buying/recycling your plastic.
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I had the same experience when I did this. It shocked me that is it such a huge problem and yet so few people know about it. Seems crazy! Great post! Thanks for spreading the word about the disaster lurking in our ocean. Here's hoping we can make a difference. Boom Boom!
It is amazing how little people know about what they are doing. Here we are in 2011 and "still" people are not reducing, reusing or recycling. After all the education and information that has been put out there this always amazes me. Why is it everyone can learn about the newest technology and pay high prices in order to use it but still cannot use a canvas bag or reuse a paper bag as much as possible to put their groceries in?
Plastic bags, that are not biodegradable and end up in the big swirl in the ocean, along roadsides, up in trees...have GOT TO GO!!!
Even the Dollar Store sells resusable bags for $1.00. They still give out regular plastic bags but it does look like they are trying, as are quite a few grocery stores.
I watch people gather up their plastic bags (with things falling out of them) and walk right by the reusable bags, which they could purchase easily.
Guess the markets and stores have to start giving them away! How can we make this happen. It seems like such a simple thing, doesn't it???
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