Wednesday 5 May 2010

PlasticTraveller: an adventure in zooicide

our garbage is floating around the world in the oceans.
Popular destinations:
Hawaii
Midway atoll
The stomachs of birds, fish, etc.

If you have ever thrown a plastic bag into an open-top garbage can, onto the street,
or into a landfill, it has probably long-since flown away and into an ocean near you.
If only they had cameras strapped to them.
stats: 1 million bags used per minute.
the % of recycling for plastic bags: 0.0 "diddley point squat"

See if you can list the types of plastic crap that they show below. You'll need lots of paper.

In the end, it goes up the food chain, and back to us!
What a trip, man!









I'm a fierce recycler and re-user and non-consumer, and still, I hung my head when I saw this suicidal behaviour we're engaged in.
If you're not doing everything you can (short of going nuts) to limit your participation, then I wish you sweet dreams; those of the ignorant.

For what it's worth, I've stopped buying plastic bottles because the chemicals leech into the body and mimic female hormones, giving you man-boobs.
The thing that bottled water taught us is not that the water in the bottle is better, but the convenience of the bottle. The water is crap, from a tap (some of it). Just use glass and re-fill it.

Look at this video on consumption and how we're being played for fools:

We are consuming and polluting. Out of sight, into the Pacific.

-Cos67 ¬(%^D>