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Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.

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3/9/2009 12:58:01 PM

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Zodd_25 : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

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265 days 11 hours ago...

that was honestly a disappointing TED talk he goes into such detail about the problem but just says "there is no real solution i see"

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Valaur : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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263 days 2 hours ago...

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His solution is to stop it at its source. For the garbage currently in the ocean - time will wash away the scars we leave behind.
Can anyone find a simple way of ridding a few million square miles of surface water?

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Gunchy : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

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258 days 20 hours ago...

solar powered gps or gyro guided paddle cylinders could float along the surface and scoop up bottle caps and such.

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theduck1980 : LVL 15: VP 2.4: said:

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258 days 15 hours ago...

Well Zodd_25, maybe he shouldn`t say anything huh... let`s put our heads in the sand and hope the problem goes away! Let the fairies deal with it!

Sarcasm aside, I thought it was very enlightening... i knew there was a problem, but I had no idea until now, to what extent. I assume i`m not alone there. Education is the start and he`s doing that... For starters, I will personally endeavour not to use plastic bags(our grocery stores all sell re-useable cotton bags etc...) and will pick aluminium cans over plastic bottles from now on.

I think the best we can hope for is that our kids will learn about this in school and as a generation, grow up more environmentally aware than us... perhaps with time technology will help with the clean up, but it`s not something we can count on.

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