Post #443627 by Polynesiac on Mon, Mar 30, 2009 12:21 PM

On 2009-03-30 11:43, tikihai wrote:
Not my personal find...
The Surfrider foundation pulled five tons of fish nets, floats and rope from Kauai's eastern shore in two years of collection.
It seems to be a lot of the plastic type and not the older stuff that would be worth keeping. Anyways it is off to the recycling plant and off of the beaches.

You're right, plastics are really filling up our oceans and are a major concern. Everything from fishing industry waste right down to plastic one-use containers that come down our storm drain systems. And plastic is forever - it just breaks into smaller and smaller bits until it's microscopic plastic. I see you're in so cal, I highly recommend viewing a documentary called "the synthetic sea" (we have it in our marine research library at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium) and check out this website: http://www.algalita.org/ Lots of good (and scary/sad) information there.

Polynesiac - putting the "F" back in "ART"

[ Edited by: Polynesiac 2009-03-30 12:23 ]