good luck trying to get the countries in asia and central america where most of this plastic comes from to stop dumping all this plastic.

many asian countries still take trash by the barge full from there coastal cities out to sea to dump it.

and in mexico and other central american countries they fill dry river beds with trash as a means of getting rid of it.
this works because every few years a major storm will empty the river bed out to sea and open the area up for new trash.
This has been going on in Colonia Fausto Gonzalez dump in Tijuana for 50 years and the trash has been washing up on San Diego beaches after storm for as long.

The Pacific garbage patch is a disgrace. With all the technology and skills we have as human beings (regardless of which country) there is no excuse for this gigantic dumpster in the Pacific.

We did just fine before they started mass producing plastic for everything, we all need to go back to using glass bottles and other containers and resources that are biodegradable. We also need to come together with solutions to clean up that mess.

That's good that at least SOMEONE cares to try to do something about that. Send it to the sun I say...

Thanks for bringing this to people's attention. I was so pleased to hear that there are people who are actually doing something about it. Star and flagged!!

Yea, I've been following the news of this disgusting mid-ocean garbage patch for many years now. Ugh!


Given the current economic situation with the world, there's a snowball's chance in hell that the patch would be cleaned up; however, if the official ET/UFO Disclosure really does happen, then I can expect a formal action to be initiated sometime in mid-to-late 2010 with a large-scale project being initiated to clean up that damn patch, pronto.


That patch is the epitome of the current state of human "advancement".

Good lord! that bird ate plastic bottle caps! And to top it off, they appear to be medication caps: ( tsk tsk... unbelievable, what that bird ate.
I wish it would be cleaned up...after all, arnt we supopsed to be noble and repsectful humans by this point? Youde think soemone olike Al gore would be worred about the carbon release as a result of all that plastic trapping gases in and under it under a hot sun. Governemnt environmentalists wanting to clean things up, stand up for some knid fo descent form of respnsbalility and correctiveness.
Anyone remember back in 1985 i think it was? That garbage barge had ltos of garbage on it, from the sound i think...and upon comnig back to america, they had no where to dump it all. anyone remember that?
Those were times of americn heritgae and grace...when america would occsionaly clan up it mess, and others to show its place as a responsable contry in the world..now, its jsut a mrer contributor: (