The other day I was at a stop light and I looked over in the grass and there was two 32 ounce plastic cups from Sheetz gas station just thrown out on the side of the road. What the hell is up with that?
The great garbage patch is shocking and twice the size of Texas April 28, 4:58 AM
Talk about a chilling, but very real scenario! The world’s largest garbage dump exists not on land, but in the Pacific Ocean, and it’s twice as large as the state of Texas. This enormous island of trash stretches from the coast of California to Japan. Oprah Winfrey recently brought this floating garbage monster to the attention of her viewers, and personally stated, “This is the most shocking thing I have seen.”
No, the Great Garbage Patch is not an urban legend; it really exists and continues to grow each and every day from trash discarded by you and me, and others around the world. Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the globe are swirling in a plastic whirlpool in the North Pacific. Think about it. Discarded water bottles from Iowa, takeout containers from New York, flip flops from California and plastic debris from the world make their way from land and into storm drains, streams, rivers and other waterways. Then are carried out to sea, where they get trapped in swirling ocean currents – forming a giant, floating trash dump of an enormous proportion. This is no joke folks, and it’s time we started doing something about it.
Plastic is the environment's evil enemy #1 as it takes 450 years for a plastic beverage bottle to decompose, and 10-20 years for s single plastic bag, according to the National Park Service. Only 10% of all plastics are currently recycled in this country, meaning that the remaining 90% goes into our oceans and landfills. A quick and easy solution is to stop drinking bottled water and to stop using plastic bags provided from retailers and grocery stores. Purchase a reusable water bottle and fill it with tap water, which is held to more stringent standards and guidelines than bottled water. If, however, you don’t like the taste of your tap water or are unsure of its quality, you can buy a filter pitcher or install an inexpensive faucet filter to remove trace chemicals and bacteria. If you will be away from home, fill a reusable bottle from your tap and refill it along the way; travel bottles with built-in filters are also available.
Each year, approximately 500 billion to 1 trillion bags are consumed worldwide. That’s over one million bags per minute! Billions of them end up in landfills and our oceans. So what’s an average person to do? Boycott plastic bags, and use your own reusable canvas ones. Many grocery stores even give a five percent discount if you use your own bags, so it can make shopping more affordable. Not to mention how this practice will help our environment tremendously. Need extra motivation to start making green choices in your life? Watch the video. I guarantee it will have a lasting impact on how you see plastic in the future. http://www.examiner.com/x-3958-Atlanta-Northside-Family--Parenting-Examiner~y2009m4d28-The-great-garbage-patch-is-real-and-its-twice-the-size-of-Texas
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