SOS: President Trump champions bill, saying its time to Save our Seas

Communities Digital News ^ | Oct 11, 2018 | Jacquie Kubin

[JimRed]

...plastic in warm ocean water can degrade in as little as a year."

How it degrades is part of the long term problem. Some plastics (I read somewhere) simply break down into smaller and smaller particles. Filter feeders at the bottom of the food chain (some fish like Menhaden and Anchovies) ingest it and where there is too much of it they can starve to death with full bellies.

[Aliska]

I suspected that. And we can only put out food grade plastic and cans for now. No styrofoam. Bulk waste on certain days; most of that ends up in the landfill.

City composting was a good idea until I bought some and got this nasty white clover that spread like crazy, extremely tough. Had to resort to 2-4-D for that but am done with it.

So I buy some wildflower seeds from a place in MN for just a few things. I got this horrid grass, thick leaves. And awful weeds never seen before around here. I think it was the place in MN.

Now am afraid to transplant any of my plants to another location to save them.

I don't have the answer, just don't want them in the oceans, rivers and waterways. Or landfills.

Of course, I don't want to give up the convenience and safety (won't shatter like glass) of some of them.

And I don't want the government telling us how to be responsible about them.

Unintended consequences and still nuclear waste to be disposed of. I don't have that, of course, but it's an issue throughout the world now.

Still it's no excuse for not doing our part in cleaning up after ourselves as best we can.