The trench is actually a pretty good place to put garbage as it's a subduction zone so stuff there gets pulled down to the mantle and ejected through pacific rim volcanoes.
Pretty neat!
Never thought of it as a good place for trick-or-treating.
It’s the perfect place for spent nuclear fuel.
My first trip to Israel was in 1990 (in fact, I landed on the day that Iraq invaded Kuwait - it was an interesting, and sonic-boom filled, trip). Anyway, just outside the Jaffa Gate leading into the Old City of Jerusalem was a pit about 20 feet deep. It was fenced off, and marked as an archeological dig. I leaned over and found, to my surprise, that my ancestors also drank Coca Cola. Imagine, we even have similar tastes - since then I’ve felt a much closer kinship to the ancient Israelites!
And that thing the size of the period at the end of this sentence was a styrofoam cup .
I have an alibi.
What language was on the wrappers and bag? It probably wasn’t English, or they would have told us.
95% of the trash in the ocean comes from 5 rivers... None of these rivers flow out of a Western country.
Yet there is life down there. Little fishes!
If life can exist seven miles under water, there's no reason why there can't be life on any of the planets in our solar system. Now I'm not talking intelligent life necessarily, just little fishes, worms, crabs and Democrats.
The trench is actually a pretty good place to put garbage as it’s a subduction zone so stuff there gets pulled down to the mantle and ejected through pacific rim volcanoes
“That crab appears to be waving something in it’s claw. It looks like a note!”
“Incredible! What’s it say???”
“Send...more...canned...meat?!?”
Wasn’t us surface dwellers. Twas the Atlantean’s fault for littering.
Yeah, the Mariana Trench, near China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and all. “Free trade,” accompanying population explosions and drains on resources...
The solution is to ban plastic bags and candy wrappers in addition to everything else.
I’m sorry, but anyone who can dive 36,000 feet gets an Olympic medal.
Cannonball!
Somebody should buy a barge and fill it up to go to the trench.
I’m tired of hauling all my trash all the way to The Grand Canyon.
I cry bullshit. Publicity stunt.
It sounds like you know more about this than I do but one of my pet peeves is humans trashing the oceans. Most of it comes from 3rd world countries that use their rivers and streams as dumpsters so it all flows out into the oceans then get around the necks of sea life or in their bellies causing death. I can't stand litter and it's even worse in the oceans. Forget climate change; that's a load of crap. Killing off species such as wild elephants and polluting the oceans is what we really need to worry about. Well; there's the over population problem but I think we're screwed (pun intended) on that one. The planet has doubled its population in under a 100 years. Another doubling will kill it by choking off land for nature. The only thing that can save us at that point is a drastic reduction in population from war, famine, or disease. Nature has a way of resetting itself if need be. I think a major reset is coming one way or the other.
By the time it gets through the subduction zone and ejected back through lava, I doubt there would be much left.
Maybe someone was watching a movie down there and forgot to throw his popcorn and milk duds in the trash.
Scanning headlines I thought it read, “Explorer finds a plastic bag and candy wrappers at the bottom of the ...Marijuana Trench”
Like that’s news?