Posted on 10/11/2018 8:29:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON: Something should have been done by previous administrations, but they ignored it. The problem of plastic in our oceans has been left to fester to unmanageable effect. Saying that over eight millions tons of garbage, plastic, is dumped into our oceans, the President says Save our Seas is an effort to clean the plastic out. No other political leader, not in the U.S. or any other country, is willing to stand up for the oceans.
The Save Our Seas Act, an important bill which reauthorizes and amends the Marine Debris Act, will act to promote international action to reduce marine debris. We can only hope this is more than a bill and that President Trump will get behind this important effort to clean our environment, not just the oceans, of plastic.
Millions of tons of single-use plastic in the environment It is staggering to realize that more than two million tons of single-use (use once and throw away) plastic soft drinks bottles are sold each year. The number of those bottles made from recycled materials, about 6.6%, is very limited. A Greenpeace survey found that five of six global soft drinks firms sold single-use plastic bottles. These numbers do not include data from the Coca-Cola Co., who declined to provide researchers with their plastic usage data.
Single-use drinks bottles are a visible part of the problem of plastics pollution in the world’s oceans. Single-use drink bottles are the most common type of plastic packaging found washed up on shorelines globally, Greenpeace tells the Guardian newspaper.
All those millions of tons of plastics swirling around in the South Pacific Gyre and the oceans will take centuries to break down. In the process of that plastic breaking down, smaller particulates are broken down, ingested by sea and bird life.
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Ping!
Good for Trump. We have ceded the environment as an issue to the enemy for too long. We need to step up and make it clear that conservationism and care for God’s creation is absolutely an important conservative value.
I’ve worked (and studied) in conservation-related fields for my entire adult life, and the folks that REALLY stick in my craw are a few so-called “Christians” I’ve met over the years, who tell me that caring about the natural world is ‘sinful’, especially since we’re (apparently) living in the end times.
Generally the scripture thrown at me was: ‘Love not the world, and the things therein,’ and I’d get told that caring about the world will only earn me the eternal lake of fire... That what I NEEDED to care about was ‘storing up my treasures in Heaven’.
Blah blah blah, you get the picture.
[ 90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from just 10 rivers ]
Aren’t most of them from .... CHYNA?
[ This is a photo from the Ganges. It’s not one of the 10 rivers responsible for most of the sea plastics but it is disgusting nonetheless. ]
They still crap in the street in India in some places.... Can we send the hippies in SF there, they wouldn’t know the difference.
I wonder if they still let the places along the shore in Dunoon Scotland run their sewer lines into the Sea Loch there. Or other villages over there.
not to worry:
https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/pacific-trials-the-gateway-to-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
track it:
https://www.theoceancleanup.com/system-001-old/
hattip Eddie01:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3686171/posts
The ocean is in bad shape and it will get worse. It’s not that we shouldn’t take care of the environment, it’s why and for who. We should take care of the environment because we live in it. We should do it for ourselves and for the benefit of lining some liberal’s pocket.
I think Rachel madcow’s head is going to exp!ode. I have never seen son lemon that depressed before. Winning is a wonderful thing.
Actually it is one of the top 10.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-pacific-ocean-cleanup-20180908-story.html
Two Texases' worth of plastic is floating in the Pacific. A new device will spend 20 years trying to clean it.
It takes some effort to recycle just my plastic waste, and I use tapwater for cooking and drinking. It takes some effort to clean and dry it rather than just toss in the trash like I did for years. Glad to make the effort though.
Single use bottles make me mad. I drink this Pure Leaf tea in some really attractive bottles, wish I could reuse them for something. The bottoms are nice and square, and I thought it might be nice to keep planters tidy by poking drainage holes and filling with potting soil, fit the bottles in with plants or seeds and cover with more soil. Would have to cut the tops of the bottles off with my hot blade.
Could winter sow them too, partially cutting the tops and leaving the caps off like they do with milk jugs (and I did a lot of it but haven't the last few winters).
Hell, yeah!!!
About time.
Getting the plastic crap out of those ten rivers will be about as easy as getting China to put effective scrubbers on their coal fired boilers.
India puts EVERYTHING in the Ganges.....one, if not thee, dirtiest and vile rivers in the world! It’s toxic... They even bury dead bodies in there and the ashes of burnt bodies they actually cremate on the banks of the river, In Varanasi faith alone, an estimated forty thousand bodies are cremated ‘every year’, many of those are only half-burnt when they send the send the corpses down the river....... not to mention their sewage.... Coliform bacteria levels in the Ganges have also been tested to be at a level too high to be safe for even agricultural use let alone drinking and bathing....additionally they wash their animals and themselves in it. Like washing in the worst sewer in the world!
The Yamuna, the main tributary of the Ganges, is now the most polluted river in India. India’s national capital, lies on the Yamuna, and this megalopolis dumps 60% of its ‘untreated’ sewage into the river.
India puts EVERYTHING in the Ganges.....one, if not thee, dirtiest and vile rivers in the world! It’s toxic... They even bury dead bodies in there and the ashes of burnt bodies they actually cremate on the banks of the river, In Varanasi faith alone, an estimated forty thousand bodies are cremated ‘every year’, many of those are only half-burnt when they send the send the corpses down the river....... not to mention their sewage.... Coliform bacteria levels in the Ganges have also been tested to be at a level too high to be safe for even agricultural use let alone drinking and bathing....additionally they wash their animals and themselves in it. Like washing in the worst sewer in the world!
The Yamuna, the main tributary of the Ganges, is now the most polluted river in India. India’s national capital, lies on the Yamuna, and this megalopolis dumps 60% of its ‘untreated’ sewage into the river.
“Actually it is one of the top 10.”
Yes it is. I stand corrected. Thanks.
My work puts me in the conservation/wildlife arena as well... but I have never in my life heard anyone make that argument. Any time the conversation turned to religion it was always confirmation of the obligation to be good stewards, never a denial of it.
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