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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 04:22 PM Original message |
10 Million square miles of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. I weep for our planet. |
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Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 04:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Very well said, I completely agree. |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 05:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. USA ~ USA ~ USA ~ |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. Yes. But people still need their lazy fucking one serving plastic cups of coffee grounds |
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kevinbgoode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
3. Wouldn't we save a ton of money |
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givemebackmycountry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
5. I guess we never heeded the golden rule of.... |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Plastic bags are the worst |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 05:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Bring your own! |
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MadAndy (202 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
6. If plastics never break down, how did the pieces get to be 1-2 mm in size? |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 04:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. The constituent polymers are not any shorter. They are just in smaller clumps, so to speak. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. Misleading. There isn't 10 million square miles of trash. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 05:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. There was a photo of a plastic "island" -- if not "continent" in the |
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Psst_Im_Not_Here (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 07:26 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. I remember it |
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brystheguy (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 05:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. This gyre doesn't grab people. Not even me. |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 05:21 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Out of sight, out of mind |
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Gonnuts (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
10. ... and I say to myself - it's a beautiful world ... |
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Xenocrates (183 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
11. It was discovered in 1997?? |
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1776Forever (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-10-08 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
12. When I read this I thought of all the space junk in our atmosphere...... |
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