Earth’s Oceans: Our Largest Plastic Landfills

[polly7]

......"Our gigantic garbage pits are full to overflowing, mostly with leftover building materials, disposable diapers, and appliances. In the developed countries of the world, each human uses an average 200 pounds of plastic annually. While a tiny amount of the garbage is recycled into durable goods, about half the plastic we produce ends up in the landfills, and the rest of it becomes lost in the environment and ultimately washes out to the sea, to become trapped in a swelling, swirling limbo of heavily polluted ocean gyres, negatively affecting ocean health and, ultimately, every person and being on the entire earth."

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_58030.shtml

Really disturbing pictures.

Beached whales killed by ingesting plastic
Published: Dec. 18, 2009 at 11:01 AM

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/12/18/Beached-whales-killed-by-ingesting-plastic/UPI-47351261152108/
FOGGIA, Italy, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Seven sperm whales that beached at Foggia, Italy, died from ingesting plastic in the ocean, a scientist at Tusica University said Friday.


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[Mithreal]

1. thanks

[stuntcat]

2. k

too late to r.

:puke: this trash

[avec]

3. The effects to our health

This problem has massive effect to everyone than what we realize. The negative health impact of the toxins found in our ocean post dangerous threat even to the unborn. And it is our responsibility to act on it now, lest we want our children to suffer from our negligence.