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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Coming soon to a beach near you
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Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-worlds-rubbish-dump-a-garbage-tip-that-stretches-from-hawaii-to-japan-778016.html
A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States...
dairyflat2008-02-05 15:36:17
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

thats insane...

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I've heard about this, it's pitiful. C'mon everyone, let's recycle!
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
where are we going to put it? we should create some form of portal...like stargate where we dial a number and send it thru to some aliens
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
We can put it all on rockets and fling it at Jupiter so it all gets compacted into itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny little bits.
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Aim it at the sun so it gets destroyed permanently. Just like what they should do with all nuclear weapons.
 
 
 
and should do with residivist offenders in jails!
Lonegunmen2008-02-05 16:43:26
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The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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Lonegunmen wrote:
Aim it at the sun so it gets destroyed permanently. Just like what they should do with all nuclear weapons.
 
 
 
and should do with residivist offenders in jails!
 
but when the cess pool melts with the repeat offenders where does their liquidated/ashs go?? mayb we could process the sun's leftovers and feed it to the prisoners...
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On a serious note, I wonder if Green Peace are going to take this issue up with the various governments?? I hope so and maybe also a time for us all to reflect on what we do when we go to the beach etc and leave rubish behind. It all adds to the problem. Lonegunmen2008-02-05 21:56:26
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Greenpeace? Governments are taking it up. It's a MAJOR issue for all the countries of the Pacific Rim to start with.
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Is this rubbish thing underwater or actually on the surface? Either way, something needs to be done.
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if it is on the water, can't people live on it?  It could be a new country called Feverland - Marius could be president with Ross Aloisi the minister of the treasury (with a little assistance from Terry).
 
Pretty soon we will be strong enough to attack other countries....
Frankie Mac2008-02-06 00:43:29

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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DKP22 wrote:
Is this rubbish thing underwater or actually on the surface? Either way, something needs to be done.


It's just under the surface, that article says that it can't be seen by satelite because of it.
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Critical_Lemon wrote:
DKP22 wrote:
Is this rubbish thing underwater or actually on the surface? Either way, something needs to be done.


It's just under the surface, that article says that it can't be seen by satelite because of it.
 
 
oh - so it doesn't exist then.
 
More hippy scare-mongering

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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and for an upfront example. next time you are at a beach. any beach. try looking for oil. That is clumps of oil usually mixed up with sand or debris....
dairyflat2008-02-06 09:10:18
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I was just sitting on Leeds beach today, and the only oil i saw was from the hair of the greek bloke sitting next to me.

I will leave my fears to something that I can see - like hippies with clipboards.

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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about 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Don't forget the Sandels and the lentil dinners.
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Frankie Mac wrote:

I was just sitting on Leeds beach today, and the only oil i saw was from the hair of the greek bloke sitting next to me.

I will leave my fears to something that I can see - like hippies with clipboards.



Yet another cynic... 

Leeds beach? This one or the one at Headingley?


dairyflat2008-02-06 17:39:42
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Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
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NG Jan 2008 also has an article about e-waste, which poorer countries get saddled with. I knew holding out from owning a mobile was worth it...   

Interestingly, according to the NG article, NZ recycles 70% of glass (pretty good when compared to EU average) and only 40% of paper (poor compared to EU average).
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American oceanographer

Charles Moore, who discovered the patch in 1997 and now studies it fulltime,believes there is about 100m tonnes of plastic circulating in the northern Pacific, or about 2.5% of all plastic items made since 1950. About 20% of the junk is thought to come from ships, while the rest  originates from countries around the Pacific rim.
dairyflat2008-02-13 15:37:30
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http://www.theecologist.org/news_detail.asp?content_id=1174
Fishing, climate change, pollution and shipping have left its mark on all but 4 per cent of the world�s seas.
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Hmmmm I reckon the Pacific Rimmers should have their tongues removed!
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There's another in the Gulf of Mexico.
 
The The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone is a large region of water that is very low in oxygen, and therefore can't support life. Dead Zones like this occur along many of the world's coastlines.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
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