'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' Threat To Marine Life

[ilovemymum]

Why cant fishing trawlers be used to scoop up the debris. Pay the fishermen to do this as a side line job

[kelleyhice]

if its so big why is there not footage from drones & helicopters?

[william.parker]

If you wonder why it looks so small or doesn't look too bad, it's because most of plastic garbage in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is broken into very small pieces from the sunlight, collision, friction, etc., and they are nearly invisible from aerial or satelite image. Though they are very small, microplastics are therefore very hard to filter and be cleaned. If I remember correctly, about 90% of all plastic garbage in the ocean are microplastics (though it depends on how you define a microplastic in terms of size). That's why we are finding more and more microplastics in bottled water, fish, other seafood and stuff. Fortunately, us humans (at least in the First World countries) have the technology to filter these plastics and unfiltered very small microplastics are not very poisnous (because we can't diget plastic they just pass through our digestive system and come out of your body when you take a dump!). But bigger plastic pieces that we wouldn't normally eat (like a broken piece of plastic fork or a plastic bag or a lighter for example) are eaten more and more by marine creatures and a considerable number of them die and suffer from these plastic garbages. And the number of plastic garbages is rapidly increasing so we should keep an eye on this. JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE IT, IT DOESN'T MEAN THIS IS A HOAX!

[geminikamal]

Ocean is home of countless life, we are throwing our garbage in someone's home, so educated we are

[krazeek]

Started as far back as the 60s, some say it’s shrinking, others it’s growing....how about clean it tf up. Use the Norte dame money

[RawrJrRoar]

ill just explain why it mentioning 'great'. from sky footage, it may not look big. the reason is its the place where major 'microplastics' will accumulate at the patch. so, it is not hoax. it is a great area of 'microplastics' floating or sinking around the ocean patch. those drones or helis footage wont able see those microplastics around.

[docholiday]

all countries are floating around it waiting to plant there flag lol

[ubbn]

0:15. I never realized france, germany and spain were such tiny countries. And much, if not most, of what is shown around 45 to 50 seconds is not garbage or plastic, so the so-called patch is even less dense with garbage than one might like to imagine.

[MeKaashu]

Shame this video only has 30K views at the time I'm watching, it should be the most watched video on YouTube

[wanchufri]

Is it not in the middle of the pacific? At 0:51 you can see a mountain

[sebastientumahai]

Still have yet to see a video from the air of this rubbish patch

[ameywani]

We need to understand that life is extremely rare and as the most intelligent species of the planet, its our duty to protect every single living organism from a non-natural death. The best case scenario is we make space travel super cheaper and stop this by dumping the plastics on other inhabitable planets or moons. Otherwise a time may come when we will have to leave this planet and find another habitable one and the latter case of finding another habitable planet is very less probable than the dumping one.

[wrongfullyaccused]

If only there was a way to tell if they are lying.

[thechief]

The video footage comes from areas offshore Central America. Check out the garbage flowing out of rivers near Roatan Honduras and Guatemala you will see the footage comes from there.

[Necronox]

Can it be harvested and melted down to be used as a building material replacing concrete? Are plastic buildings possible?

[LicoriceCamo]

Looks like I’m not the only one wondering why the claimed size of the mass is all over the place ranging from the size of Ohio to 3x the size of Texas and every single video and photo shows a patch about the side of a parking lot

[dynomax]

Microplastics are less than 5mm not 50mm. That’s two inches!

[ryan.b]

Why can’t take big cargo ships out there with mega nets and clean it up

[j.kelley]

God forbid they pick that shit up instead of looking at it and complaining.

[imshook]

inaccurate information, the plastic patch is not expanding rapidly, its decreasing slowly