Comments on: North Pacific Gyre “Garbage Island” Documentary Parts 10 & 11 http://deepseanews.com/2008/05/north-pacific-gyre-garbage-island-documentary-parts-10-11/ All the news on the Earth's largest environment. Tue, 22 May 2012 14:59:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mrs Hilary Victoria Minor http://deepseanews.com/2008/05/north-pacific-gyre-garbage-island-documentary-parts-10-11/comment-page-1/#comment-2937 Mrs Hilary Victoria Minor Tue, 06 May 2008 14:45:16 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2008/05/north-pacific-gyre-garbage-island-documentary-parts-10-11/#comment-2937 A big bottle of plastics contaminated sea water should be sent, as a gift, to every plastics manufacturer and every effluent-processing plant on the globe! These two films made me want to weep! A big bottle of plastics contaminated sea water should be sent, as a gift, to every plastics manufacturer and every effluent-processing plant on the globe! These two films made me want to weep!

]]> By: dave X http://deepseanews.com/2008/05/north-pacific-gyre-garbage-island-documentary-parts-10-11/comment-page-1/#comment-2936 dave X Mon, 05 May 2008 12:54:56 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/2008/05/north-pacific-gyre-garbage-island-documentary-parts-10-11/#comment-2936 Cursing. 1000:1 H2O to algae sample of small particles coated with persistent organic pollutants. A fishing-line beozar. A big tangled ghost net. Breaking a glass sample bottle, but a plastic one may have altered the sample. Kissing & fade to black. ---------------- The technology we would need to clean it up makes me think of things like the "Source" and "Feed" from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age" rel="nofollow">Neal Stephenson's "Diamond Age"</a>. I wonder how much plastic will eventually end up bioaccumulated and deposited in the sediment. Cursing.

1000:1 H2O to algae sample of small particles coated with persistent organic pollutants.

A fishing-line beozar.

A big tangled ghost net.

Breaking a glass sample bottle, but a plastic one may have altered the sample.

Kissing & fade to black.

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The technology we would need to clean it up makes me think of things like the “Source” and “Feed” from Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Age”.

I wonder how much plastic will eventually end up bioaccumulated and deposited in the sediment.

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