The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Not What You Think It Is | The Swim

You are doing great work. When are you deploying to other garbage patches?

I was listening to another program that said a lot of this stuff is coming from the orient. People just disgust me sometimes!! But people like you I'm glad are around. My daughter when she was here was very passionate about the environment. She is buried in the same cemetery as Rachel Carson, someone who she didn't even know was at that cemetery and someone who she revered and respected. They want to find out about the problem when people need to stop being slobs. I think disposable lighters should be completely banned! Along with so many other things. I think in the city of Taipei they banned disposable coffee cups and people have to bring their own cups. People will conform they will have. When you think about it none of our ancestors had any of these things. 200 years ago there was no such thing as these plastic items. And then we wonder why people's hormones are so screwed up because plastic attaches to so many of our receptors. Thank you and kudos to the people in this video and people like them trying to solve The world's ecological problems and pick up the pieces from all these stinking rotten idiots. And then just recently I saw something on the news about how these polycarbonate bottles have nanoparticles in them and it's no wonder Americans are also fat drinking out of those plastic bottles all the time! I use reusable tumblers that are made from stainless steel and I have stainless steel straws and a little travel packet with fork and knife and spoon.

Don't ask people what they are doing to use less plastic. People don't have a lot of options when it comes to buying it. Instead, ask what the companies and governments are going to do about the manufacturing of it.

Crap,not 1 pic or vid of actual amount of rubish

Where is the patch?
All I see is graphics or close-up segments of various rubbish in water?

Such a rubbish video.

Tsunamis,tornadoes,cyclones,and hurricanes

It simple don’t use plastic period

I’m willing to bet that 80-90% all came from China and India

Just make the shyt break down after 2 years. Jeeeeziz!!

I think that someone should make it into another continent for people to live

lot of the plastic in the video is not from the sea,. sun light will discolor plastic and the plastic in the video is new

People must have the conscience not dispose their garbage anywhere. Marine life deteriorates n food supply scarce.

Can an asteroid just wipe us out already
We dont deserve this planet 🫤

instead of creating weapons for war, create a technique that will clean up garbage......

Porca merda burger

It's very simple everyone. Ban plastic. That's it

Clean up all plastic

I try to use refillable containers for coffee and water.

Save the trees ever try walk home in the rain with paper bag

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Why did you not mention the main contributor to plastic in the ocean???? Commercial Fishing gear!!!

thanks to African countries for 90% of the plastic in the ocean.

Eat and store where?

“When you refuse single use plastics it makes a dramatic effect…” this rhetoric is OK, but it’s most certainly big corporations making the biggest difference in their choices. It’s not like we have a lot of options.

81% of ocean plastic comes from Asia, laws in the west won't do a thing.

Almost 100% of ocean garbage comes from poor countries that dump all of their garbage in local rivers.

Million mile battery, no realistic mention that more than 20% of an average charge goes to sentry mode, ac, non driving functions etc. In the context of charging at home then going about my weekend staying at my gfs place with no charging.

Tesla claims my m3 gets 345 about on a full charge but don't fully charge it to avoid degradation and don't use it to very low soc to avoid degradation.

Realistically 280 miles on a "full" charge is rare. Soooo they say million mile battery, I say not in practice but great idea.

Bunch of bullshit.

I always knew that UK is not a best place to visit

When i order take out i tell them NO plastic utensils please and always screw the cap back in the plastic bottle!!! Please teach your kids!!!

I wil like to build the bucets recicleplat in South Africa I would like somebody to assist me

Plastic only began to be mass produced by the 1960's.. if we created this problem in less then 70 years.. imagine what it will be like after 100 years.. or 150 years. The worst is on a quick decline. All started by the industrial revolution

I think all shipping ships need to be involved in this project.
Great work thanks.

China...

but i like the plastic

The bigger the lie the more likely people are to believe it

It's from India bc they don't have a proper garage system. So they just throw it in the river and the river travels to the ocean. Plus you have people from ships throwing tlstuff overboard constantly

The worst part is so many contries are involved it would be very difficult to have all them do their part in fixing corruption is rampant in many countries

USA pays for 40% of their recyclable waste to Indonesia to get rid of! Most of which ends up in the ocean.

I’m Just starting So excuse my ignorance 😊. How does it get into the ocean to begin with ? I live in Toronto Ontario Canada, so I guess being so far from an ocean, I don’t actually think about my products getting into an ocean. I’m not saying they don’t.
I just imagine New Yorkers throwing their cups into the ocean after their lunch breaks 🤪. I know silly. But like I said, I’m far from an ocean lol
Companies don’t do that do they? I can see maybe wind being a problem and of course fishing materials. But 🤷🏼‍♀️

no actual footage of the garbage patch its click bait

I throw my rubbish into the ocean because the ocean is big and anything you put in it disappears. Also the fish are dumb they don't even drink water. So what's the big deal, plastic floats so it's just gonna float and stay in the middle of the ocean where no body lives.

I bought wax paper cover sheets for my food storage and I use my plates to cover also so,e times instead of using Saran plastic.

I'm still double bagging my groceries....

I've heard that we now actually have plastic in our blood

Hence forever particles

So Nike is the one responsible for the patch growing to start with. It was all Nikes fault

We have water pumps and filters for the small particles of plastic.

Hiroshima is city sized, patch is Texas