One By OneThursday, May 7th, 2009 by MC |
This was sent in by Rick Tyner who created the video.
In the Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a quiet place in the ocean where a clockwise circular current continues to trap massive amounts of plastics. Scientists estimate the area is between 700,000 and 1,500,000 square Kilometers. The plastics slowly break down, contaminate and have toxic effects on sea life and water-foul. Eventually, the toxins make it into small fish, then larger fish, then into you and me.
Squidforce! urges you to eliminate single use plastic vessels (like water bottles, disposable shopping bags, etc) and purchase a refillable stainless steel or aluminum water bottle and use it everyday.
VBS did an excellent piece on this phenomena and you can view it here.
