This post is about "Synthetic Sea: Plastic in the Ocean" and a video Talk at TED.com. I have to apologize to you if these videos put you in a bad mood. They are about plastics. Insignificant plastic bottles and bags we humans consume and dispose on land. Whenever these petroleum based products are washed away into rivers and gutters, they are taken down to the ocean. The currents of the ocean take them circling around the global. And some of these plastic finally end up in their final destination, a gigantic floating plastic graveyard somewhere in the ocean the size of texas. "Maybe UN should be involved, send ships there and clean up the mass," this was my first naive and indifferent reaction when I first heard of this disturbing news. If only being indifferent and apathetic the problem would solve itself and disappear… Due to weathering, these plastics are broken down into smaller and smaller pieces. These smaller pieces are not only trapping and choking our marine animals and the worst of all, these petroleum plastics are already digested and have already entered our food chain… Synthetic Sea: Plastic in the Ocean --The video-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJvifVrGi8o --The script for the video-- http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/synthetic_sea_transcript.html This lecture at Ted.com: http://www.ted.com/talks/capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic.html The script of this Talk: http://www.portalasporta.it/news_primo%20piano/trascrizione_moore_ted.pdf It's never too late to know, right? --

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