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Of course. Tourists. I know I deal with them all the time. Nobody uses the garbage bins anymore. Why are you so surprised?
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We live in a disposal society, unfortunately with very little respect for the environment. Sad.
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Tourists??? The locals are pigs! I have lived in several Latin American countries and I know this is true.
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Make recycling mandatory- world wide. Make using recycled materials- mandatory for ALL manufacturers. Make Styrofoam extinct- use other more recyclable materials. Require big businesses responsible for their waste products. (The average citizen can only do so much) Do your part- clean up paths, beaches, parks etc…every time you go out. One piece of trash at a time. Have recycling bins on street corners. put a 5 cent return on plastic bottles. In our oceans, create a new business- ocean clean up without harming the wildlife. How about new business- eco-tours that clean up our planet….Then again—-if people can’t keep their own houses and the company break room clean-what do you expect? Humans are a plague on this planet.
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This is a problem everywhe re and it is inexcusable!!!. We know better..
.we know what we can do to change things yet we don’t. Shame on us humans for ruining the planet.
Of course no body takes in the fact the Caribbean was just destroyed by how many Hurricanes. If the islands look like a disaster can’t imagine what the sea looks like.
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That is a mess, but also a resource that is worth money. Suck it up and recycle to create the equivalent of a lot of oil and petrochemicals.
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Candice Quilty its hard when most of your stuff you buy now a days is packed in it. I would like to see refillable items instead of use once throw away items.
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Don’t drive your cars. Oil and Coal produce this pollution. These are things these disgusting mines make. World pollution.
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I understand the issue re cars being a problem but struggle with the connection between the seas having all this shite dumped in them
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Really? How you getting electricity then? Or food? See “green” energy solutions use just as much plastics and to be perfectly honest pollute just as much if not worse than regular coal and oil plants. I used to work in a green energy facility the waste was unimaginable and the chemicals used where highly caustic
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These photos popping up everywhere, will someone clean it? Why can’t someone do something about it? I agree that there is many ways to prevent this and it’s out of our reach but at this moment the most important thing is to take this shit out of the sea!
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ofc, there are bazillion startups. but they have to proof that they are viable. first you can’t collect it by hand. the amount of gasoline consumed would be a higher ecological damage than the plastic. second it needs to be economic. so you need to get more from collecting and recycling back or otherwise there won’t be a big enough operation. third poit is you can’t endanger wildlife with your solution. we could simply fish it out with nets but you will also catch fish and shark and whale and dolphin etc. 4th point and this is my concern. you all see these pictures with the plastic floating on top of rivers, oceans etc etc. yeah it looks bad, but thats the main point. this is not the pollution which is the big problem after all. this is no micro plastic. but the main problem of the pollution is the micro plastic in your shower gel, in your shampoo in your toothpaste in your cosmetics in your washingpowder etc. the plastic floating on top like carpets is maybe 5% and it can be theoretically collected by hand. we can’t even filter the microplastic out of our wastewater. when it passes the treatment facility it will ultimately end to 100% in the water cycle and stay there for 100.000 years. you eat this with fish, salt, honey, beer, everything. we have found plastic in every single product which comes in contact with water. it causes cancer, inflammation first in animals and then in humans. so do not focus blindly on this plastic carpet pollution focus on your everyday products wich end in the drainage. there are barcode scanning apps out there without them it is impossible to determin in which product microplastic is contained. I bought expensive ecological showergel from switzerland and in a documentary about micro plastic they testes bathproduct and even in the 4-5$ expensive greenlabel prodcts there was nearly 50% plasic particles contained. so please take focus. every plastic in the water is bad, but the worse goes down your sink every fkkn day and it is contained nearly in every fkkn product.
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There are fines for littering on the beach and elsewhere for citizens so why not for the companies that dump the garbage?
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FUCKED UP. WHERE IS EVERYBODY CLEANING THIS SHIT UP? YOU PUT ME UP AND FEED ME, I’LL HELP CLEAN THIS UP.
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So why doesn’t someone with a boat clean the shit up? Seriously! I don’t understand! Take your damn fishing net and take as much as you can out of the water! When we walk down the street and see garbage on the road, you pick it up and throw it in the garbage can! It’s that simple!!!!
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Less time taking pics for attention and more time cleaning and it would not be a problem
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If the stupid companies would use bio-degradable packaging we would not have a problem so it is not just people to blame the blame is also from the rich wo is looking to get richer
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why isn’t it being cleaned up ??? just who is doing all thes shit!!!!!!????
Reply Companies wouldn’t package & make plastic if one didn’t buy it. Look at what you buy, contact that company and state ” thank you for your product, however i feel the need to refrain from buying it until a more earth friendly packaging can be done & i am encouraging all my friends & family to do so”.
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Manufacturers of any/all pollutants, including garbage of any kind, should be financially and physically responsible to clean up any pollution they produce. Should be considered a cost of doing business. Yes, the costs will get passed down to the consumer, but what’s more important to you? Cheapest consumerism products possible that leads to a toxic wasteland of a planet? Or paying a little more and having manufacturers of pollution cleaning up the mess from their products so that future generations have a clean planet to live on? jmo
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don’t package everything we use in plastic but it is cheaper they make more money with plastic what are we to do every thing we use is plastic and then how do you get rid of it. You have to drive to a recycle place, there is just no help for the ones that try but thats our fault while we are trying to recycle big companies are shoving money in their pockets and pushing plastic McDonalds changed to paper Why can’t so of these others change packages
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Well from what I have seen Garbage is taken by boat out to sea in many countries and where is it taken….to the sea dump I guess and yes it eventually floats back…..its bloody disgusting, and I feel for all the sea life with this….
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and another reason not to eat fish Think what they take in when they try to eat.
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Hopefully that will act as a barrier and keep all the retards on their Islands.
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Perhaps they just following in the wake of a cruise ship? Spirit of the incontinent geriatric or some Giant boat like that!
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I remember an evening walk on the beach in Mexico after a day of spring break family fun. Garbage was everywhere and the tide was coming in. Next day, no garbage! Now that was 20 years ago. Imagine i
it happening every day…365 days a year…20 yrs later?. And that is one beach in Mexico.
When I was a kid in the 70s, many things were delivered in glass, cardboard, pressed paper or even wooden or straw packaging. Groceries were bagged in paper bags, meat was wrapped in butcher paper, as was cheese.
It cannot be impossible to incorporate this more eco-friendly packaging back into our lives, especially foodstuff packaging.Gosh, even straws were waxed paper and icecream was served with a little wooden paddle spoon.
Back then the protesters were trying to save trees. I think the whole of Earth is in trouble with all this plastic. We have to get off of plastic. Trees regenerate and regrow. Paper products compost or deteriorate in no time compared to plastics.
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We should collect lots of plastic and deliver it in front of government ,businesses and industry….
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All non-recyclable plastic waste should be incinerated to produce electricity. This should be a global mandate!!
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Not if it is burned at high temperature in an industrial furnace. With scrubbers to catch any incidental particles. Many plastics are derived from petroleum. Some are plant based. Carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur.
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Someone needs to be paid to clean all this up the poor fish turtles and marine life affected.plastic needs to be outlowed
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In this day and age surely there must be a way of scooping all that off the surface of the sea ????
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You can tell how much Hue mans appreciate their only home by how badly they pollute it.
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Funny thou how every flood and tsunami is getting worse because of man thou. If it wasnt for that you may have a valid point. Also people build in flood plains and dry forests. Now whos fault is that?
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Do the people who take these kinds of pictures ever make any effort to clean any of it up? Obviously they can’t just magically fix it but if every person who went out there took at least a few bigger garbage bags full, or more, surely it would start to make a dent at some point. There’s probably people out there every day.
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Some are even staged. The plastic forks, spoons, fast food dish pic. All still new, white and all together right on top after floating at sea? Nope. There is no doubt there is an issue, but staged pics turns many away and does not help this cause. Also, the area had a lot of photo ops after Irma. So much debris from the devastation to the islands.But Yes we need to work on cleaning our seas.
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I believe we have the technology to clean it up, but not the will. An international effort is required. Imagine if (say) America is donating 4 destroyer to be converted into tugs to tow giant nets, and England to donated an Aircraft Carrier to “process” the “catch”. I betcha Russia would want to “join” the “fishing contest” AND then China!! Yaaa! And the “winner is……………. 🙂
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…I see what looks like island land in the back ground…has anyone on a cruise ship to the caribbean ever seen this ? I haven’t…just asking.
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