Vice sailed out to the North Pacific Gyre to create a documentary on the Pacific Garbage Patch. Much of the trash can not be seen on the surface; however, there are occasions where trash will float up, but most of the trash is underneath the surface of the water and many are fragments, especially of plastic. They discovered that a lot of the garbage is mostly plastic; the ratio between plastic to sea life is 6:1. They took many water samples, and found out micro plastics are floating in the ocean. They said it is impossible to clean up all the trash. It would take about 6.6 billion people during their life time to clean it up. The micro plastics are going to cause environmental and human health issues; fish would eat them then will be consumed by us. Also when plastic brakes down in the water it leaches out toxic chemicals making it harmful for marine life. Our planet is going downhill with all the pollution we are causing, especially water pollution. We are basically eating our own trash that we through away.
I agree with what the man said in the documentary about how we need to stop using plastic. If we stop using it the input of it in the ocean will decrease, and the ocean will have a chance to process it. We have become a society that uses to much plastic for everything Everywhere I go I always see plastic bags on the floor or even up on a tree. It is only causing harm to our environment. I can not believe that our trash is found in the middle of no where out in the ocean. It is really sad knowing that all our trash is being washed out into the ocean causing major problems. I agree something needs to be done.
Do what you can to help - and get others to! It's hard to eliminate plastic though... 5/5
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