Tuesday, December 7, 2010

THE EIGHTH CONTINENT

Please watch this Nightline video.

Please.

It's so far beyond anything even I have imagined.

We need to try to swear off plastic whenever anything else is available. See this link for more on plastic alternatives.

2 comments:

  1. Robert E. Bledsaw II07 December, 2010 01:40

    As he touched on; what happens when, on the molecular-level, plastics contaminate the fish, and thereby our own food supply? What is the long-term health risks, for animal and man? How many years before it degrades to that level? I would guess, not many.

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  2. Robert, frightening, isn't it? Here are two articles that address your question. I don't have time to summarize them right now, but they're freely accessible on the web (unlike a lot of my sources which come from University library): http://www.bcise.com/CurrentIssuePapers/Plastic-Continent.pdf, and http://5gyres.org/media/Persistent_organic_pollutants.pdf

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