Hawai Cruisers - Have You Sailed Through The "Pacific Garbage Patch"?

[Haoie]

People read this and think it's some giant solid mass or floating trash island - nothing like that. It's more like a plastic/water slurry. And of course most of it is either too small to see or underwater.

[LocoLoco1]

People read this and think it's some giant solid mass or floating trash island - nothing like that. It's more like a plastic/water slurry. And of course most of it is either too small to see or underwater.

Correct. But there IS lots more floating junk nowadays. Wanna see Horrific Garbage and Pesticides?? Try the mouths of the Ganges, Niger or the Yangtse Rivers...and where does it end up?? Uh-huh.

[chengkp75]

Correct. But there IS lots more floating junk nowadays. Wanna see Horrific Garbage and Pesticides?? Try the mouths of the Ganges, Niger or the Yangtse Rivers...and where does it end up?? Uh-huh.

 

Heck, about a mile offshore of the "world renowned" Copacabana beach, there is a permanent belt of floating garbage. Been there for decades.

[AmazedByCruising]

The mission has started!

 

 

 

Edited October 24, 2018 by AmazedByCruising

[cruising cockroach]

Microplastics are being found in human faeces.....

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microplastics-have-been-found-in-people-rsquo-s-poop-what-does-it-mean/

[cb at sea]

Don't throw your trash ANYWHERE except in a trash can...have it taken to a DUMP SITE....on land....  We have plenty of space for garbage, if it's disposed of properly.