Where Is The Biggest Garbage Dump On Earth? 

how about making the companies that create the plastic containers of all sorts responsible for taking the empties back? here they are making huge fortunes from plastics of all kinds - why not make them have to clean up the planet as part of their jobs? Why leave it to others?

I thought he was going to say: "Nurdles, get eaten by turtles."

Let's have permantent containers for filling up Milk, and other products from dispensors that can be available at the grocery stores.I have seen them in Europe. You just fill up the containers you put the lid on, get a little slip about the price from the machine , pay at the cashier.

why PRODUCE more plastic? Go there and harvest plastic already made. It's free!!!!

A team of researchers just estimated (2/12/15) in the journal Science that 4.8 to 12.7 million metric tons of plastic waste entered the ocean in 2010 alone. For the answers why, see our video (above) and article on the world's biggest garbage dump... the Pacific Ocean. science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm

We need to invent a way to degrade plastic into small melecules and then degrade those compounds into elements.

So much talk about climate change, and absolutely NOTHING in mainstream media about this. Why?!? Because it doesn't generate revenue!

This is something important that the old needs to know about

It's no coincidence the bigger patch is the one that's closer to the west coast of the U.S!

Finally, someone has given Capt. Charles Moore, of the Algalita, credit for his years of research.

Yo bastien

I love how you support cleaning up trash!

Can you do a video on the problem that items made from recycled plastic, like polyester fleece clothing, when washed, pass microplastic fibers through treatment plants into waterways and are accumulating in marine habitats and the bodies of marine life?

Wait I thought the biggest garbage dump on Earth was the RU-vid Comment Section. Edit: The irony of me posting this x_x

Shouldn't matter how long it takes or how many ships, the plastic needs to go from the ocean...

Shouldn't we be cleaning this up?

i see plenty of large debris, why can't fishing trawlers haul in trash instead of fish? funding something that doesn't generate a profit is something this world is unwilling to do, even if it means our survival

When you think your understanding it but then you suddenly go like"wtf is he saying"

I remember taking milk and soda bottles back to stores for re-use. We use to wash our dishes and re-use.

thanks - great video for us and our children!

Just back from islands of Saint Kitts & Nevis, located in the caribbean sea. The islands were a giant trash cans and the locals told me that they "can't recycle because the garbage barges are greedy, charging too much". We spent most of our time on the shore and never saw a single fish, dolphin, etc. We saw tons of trash though. Locals use the island for a trash can and their shores would make you cry. A little research shows that all Caribbean Islands have the same attitude. Pain causes change and they survive on tourism money. Consider vacationing some where else. I know we will.

I was figuring on New Jersey, given the smell.

Boyen Slat has a good idea... we can each share by recycling

Some of the more ironic comments left behind actually have merit. For example, plastic does contain much BTU value, meaning it can easily be waste-to-energy recycled.

Why can't we make it a requirement to recycle plastic. Of course not everyone will do it but the ones that will do it will help out.

Meanwhile, on the land, plastic production sees no reduction. Trying to fix only one side of the problem will get us nowhere. I am not as stupid as the rest of my species, but unfortunately have to suffer the same fate.

To all the people in the world and to the comments below. I was taught to not complain unless you have a solution. There is a very simple solution to this problem. Most Plastics can be broken down into little pellets and reused. There are some Plastics that are contaminated with food products and paper stuck to them that are not is easily reusable. And America's running out of space for dumping are trash. Most of the plastic that ends up in the ocean lakes and rivers is due to the people that are throwing the trash onto our streets. If then gets washed into the ocean to our sewage. The problem is not plastic or our trash there are many good things that we could be doing with it but we are not it is we the people that need to change. Here's my solution to the problem of our garbage. 1 we must demand that Congress make a law that says all homeowners recycle if the homeowner does not recycle they will charge a fee so that it can be recycled by others at a recycling plant. Every city must have at least two recycling plants. If not 4. As for people that live in the apartments right now we pay what is called a alligated bill for water sewage and trash each building has its own dumpster the residents of the building that occupy the dumpster will charged in that alligated bill. And for the people that don't care and purposely litter our streets there are two things we can do with that. One the people that are literally must be fine first second and third offenses will increase once we hit their wallets they will care. 2 we encourage by making it profitable for people to pick up the garbage by offering money for it like we did with aluminum cans and glass. There are a great deal of people that would be picking it up if they knew they could get money for it. Then we recycle everything and reuse everything that we can. The food products that we cannot recycle should be buried in the ground only food products should be buried and made into methane Natural Gas. The stuff that cannot be reused like the Plastics that they are talking about can then be molded into making walls doors floors and roofs to make affordable housing for people. We have a wood shortage that most people do not realize. And affordable housing is unheard of here in America. But if we take the idea from Henry Ford and what he did with the Model T week and end turn this plastic into affordable homes. Plastic melts and is easy to mold. Plus wood rot when it gets wet and many animals and insects make it their home where we have to spend a lot of money repairing and insecticide. Whereas with plastic it is waterproof it will keep you warm in the winter cool in the summer and no Critters will eat into it or water ride it to make it a home for insects. This will solve the problem. There is no reason for us to run around screaming like chicken little the sky is falling the sky is falling. We are human beings with a brain let us start using it. If any of you have other ideas that you can add to what I said please reply and let us hear it. Y'all have a good day.

How do some of you not see the benefits of cleaning up the bigger pieces of plastic before they break up into millions of smaller pieces that we can't remove later on. The only way to stop this problem is to stop adding plastic to it, AND removing the big pieces before they turn into small pieces. Then the problem will be manageable, because then the only problem is those small pieces that already broke up before we got around to fixing it. And that would be sad, but still nothing compared to the issues we will face in the future if we do nothing now. We have to act before it's too late and all sea life die out. This planet is mostly water, so it's safe to say that most of the edible food on this planet comes from the ocean. If we pollute it to the extent where it's not safe to eat anything from the ocean anymore, HOW ON EARTH are we supposed to feed the human population. Step 1: stop making plastic step 2: our current plastic must be disposed off in a different way. step 3: clean up all the big plastic pieces in the ocean. step 4: pray we were not too late......

1:32 - that doesn't look like 10 feet.

We should also notice that 90% of the plastic is found near shores, only 10% are in the big plastic patches.

Can't believe you did not show us this big garbage patch this is after all you tube

I’m all about preserving the environment. Where are the pictures, videos etc of these occurrences?

I don't want to live in this planet no more - Dr. Farnsworth

Cant that be gathered out and recycled and somehow be stopped from ending up back in the sea again ? I would think somehow that could be worked on.

"The Ocean Conservancy reported that China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam dump more plastic in the sea than all other countries combined.[33] China alone is responsible for 30% of worldwide plastic ocean pollution." Making the USA ban plastic isn't really going to help. Rather, the USA should probably just directly help with cleaning efforts.

My name is Mark C. Radosevich and I live N.E. of Durango, Colorado. I'm a 67 yr. old scientist and inventor of a biodegradable and extra profitable liquid fuel replacement for petroleum. This new higher mixed alcohol fuel is a synthetic blend of C1-C6 normal alcohols to include methanol, ethanol, n-propanol, n-butanol, n-pentanol and six carbon n-hexanol. This GTL (gas-to-liquids) synthesis technology [refinery chemistry set] has been in use for a hundred years in converting methane natural gas or solid coal into C1 methanol. My GTL system uses a totally different patented catalyst to produce six, eight or ten normal, synthetic alcohols instead of simply C1 methanol - and at 5x the efficiency of conversion which dovetails directly into its profitability. The first green herein are the profits which this fuel synthesis system will generate for its equity owners. The second green which drives me is its near-term benefits to Land, Water and Atmosphere. The U.S. EPA approved this new alcohol fuel for commercialization on September 20, 2001. This gas to liquids higher mixed alcohol technology began 45 years ago and still has not been commercialized. There exists a very large and definite controlling greed factor stymied by divisive patents to about one-half of the planet. I have been quietly working with this new and hidden fuel for the past 25 years. This new "Oxycarbon" mixed alcohol fuel contains just three atoms. Carbon, associated Hydrogen and new, missing Oxygen which is derived from H2O as hot steam. The chemical magic herein becomes the missing Oxygen atom which is not contained within Hydrocarbon [fossil oily] fuels of Nat/Gas, Crude OIL or solid Coal. This additional Oxygen atom does not contain any BTU's of combustion energy. Instead, it "fans the flames" to enable refined petroleum oils or ground coal or natural gas to combust far cleaner and provide more torque, fuel economy and a highly reduced emissions profile. The Oxygen atom also changes the polarity of the fuel molecule and instead of floating on water as ALL oils do (even edible oils) -- the new and stronger (less expensive) fuel alcohol is magnetically polarized to bind and dilute with water. This becomes the biodegradable aspect and the new alcohol fuel actually provides a free lunch to single celled [plant] phytoplankton & [animal] bacteria species and to all green living plants, trees, brush and grass. All of these living species consume the dilute alcohol fuel for lunch and pop off a water molecule. The chemistry is very simple, so simple that young children can interpret and understand it. I need investors to development a $50M tiny showcase demonstrating that society's solid waste garbage, sewer sludge, ground tires, beetle-killed pine, medical wastes and hazardous wastes become the source feed stock for Carbon & Hydrogen (instead of corn kernels) and such solid wastes are cleanly converted in a special Rotary Kiln Gasifier without a smokestack, thus no emissions. Imagine all of these nasty solid wastes being converted into a new, extra profitable, water soluble, biodegradable, oil soluble & coal soluble extra profitable biofuel without a smokestack, AND at negative cost per gallon as these solid waste feed-stocks come with a tipping fee for disposal. Right behind the next $50M scale of demonstration will become commercial sizes of mixed alcohol refinery systems beginning in the $350M to $500M range which zero their capital debt in their first year of operations. The Oil Industry is more interested in converting their abundant sources of Methane natural gas and CO2 into this same new biofuel. Thus this GTL system has two front ends, one gaseous the other being solid wastes. The latter is the most profitable. Using Methane Nat/Gas and CO2 as feed stock will produce the new liquid biodegradable fuel for about 35¢ per gallon. Gasifying the solid wastes of society without emissions and collecting a tipping fee will produce the new liquid biofuel for approximately a negative -35¢ per gallon. This is the answer to provide a replacement for fossil fuels and help mitigate air and ground pollution and global warming. Please pass this message on to those who care about humanities future.

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I'm so high right now and this is the most depressing thing I've heard this decade.

who'd ever thought that buying a coca cola bottle could end up back to you in your fish dish!

was anyone else hoping to actually see the biggest garbage dump? and not hear this dupe go on and on about something we didnt look up?

this is one of the most dis heartening videos i have ever seen !

Moving forward in advancements may not be the best idea they never had garbage problems back in the 1700s and so on but now forget it

That captain found the great pacific garbage pack in 1997 lmao 😂

BAN PLASTIC!

Humanity is the worst crooked funky animal living on the Earth.

maybe connecting subs and ships with a huge net therefor filtering out the garbage and water, after that we just drive the ships back to a dock and bring back the trash at there same time

I wonder if any of my plastic forks and condom wrappers are clumped up in that thing🤔

thats fine if it takes a long time because sooner than later if we started cleaning it 20 years from now alot of it would've been gone by now and then 20 years from now and so forth, we need to clean up our oceans and clean our planet because we only have one planet earth to live on

I hate the recycling program we have in Massachusetts. Only some cities are adhering it, and most customers in my store could care less. They make us double the extra thick plastic bags, only to find them in the empty carriages in the lot because they were too lazy to bring their reusable bags INTO the store in the 1st place. And we aren't charging them. And we then have to throw them away because we can't assume they are still clean. When customers get cut, or spit in them when they are sick

Outlaw all petroleum based plastics and only used hemp based biodegradable plastics..

The problem is a lot scarier than it sounds. The Ocean Cleanup Project is taking a massive effort to solve this. If you want to support them, check out www.theoceancleanup.com

My number one question is HOW is all of this trash getting into the ocean in the first place?

i am a mexican citysenship but your video was really important

This is horrifying

Why don't we use edible plastics like that fake candy stuff we all grew up with.. Drink your bottle of soda then eat the bottle for snack. .Same with bags .grocery shop then get home put away your shit ty foods then devour the bags so I don't have to step on them at the beach

That's horrifying. What have we done?

well at least we know where to pick up the piles of garbage.

showing this to my kids

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But its ok because counteries like Australia are switching to reusable shopping bags.. some how that will stop places like Haiti dumping rubbish straight in the ocean..

hemp is the solution

Not only that... there is a 45 km beach in Guatemala that... you guessed it.. goes right into the ocean and it is covered by plastic. When you ask the locals they will tell you: who cares. The tide will clean it up...

its like looking at cancer twice !

If we keep adding more rubbish perhaps we can eventually create a land/garbage bridge between california and hawaii, or perhaps a series of new islands. New land equals new jobs, transport and real estate, which would lead to economic development. My plan is flawless.

That's a very varied amount. 4.8 to 12.7.

Plastic pollution is a night mire for mother earth but many idiots think its a joke. What do i do to help my city? i came up with a strategy to help but my mayor thinks it's politics, so what do i do now?

Why does no one mention that many third world countries literally dump truckloads directly into oceans and waterways. There is so much video footage of truck after truck pulling up and dumping into waterways! Let's address this issue!

who's idea was it to dump plastic in the oceans?

STOP FUCKING LITTERING AROUND. THIS HAS TO END. TRASH WON'T DISAPPEAR BY ITSELF.

if the trash can gave you some money after using the proper recycle bin and not a mixed one, that could be a way

Its sucks that there is so much trash out there the size of Texas. We need to recycle and use the trash can

Plastic? What about all the old computers & their parts?

You think thats bad, you should see the great garbage shield surrounding our planet

SO what about eating elmers glue ?

Really inspiring 😃

I can't say just anything else, please world, let's change our future please

“Supposed to be”, I’m glad we humans have everything figured out.

The true answer is Hollywood.

This is actually not completely true...I watched the Vice documentary about the garbage patch (they actually went out there) and it's not solid garbage like you would think...it's actually billions of very very small plastic particles not visible, most of the time, with the naked eye. Yes you will see large pieces of floating random garbage once in awhile but it's not a floating dump so to speak. Most things degrade except for plastic, and it too degrades but just not all the way, hence the billions of particles floating around all the oceans of the world. Go watch it.

I really surprised when they were looking for a down airline plane and they kept finding trash .

I wish to fucking high that you people who have the privilege to do it FORCE PEOPLE in every city in America to freaking recycle. It's only an option here in New York City to recycle and not a law.

Merci pour ce cours d'anglais fort intéressant

If China can build these floating concrete islands, then maybe one day, rather than sending out trawlers to clean up the mess, which is too costly and time consuming, we may be able to build a floating island near to the garbage patch and have a power station fuelled on plastic built on one of these concrete islands. Anything is possible. It just requires a lot of thought. I guess a lot of the rubbish out there is largely due to hurricanes, twisters and tsunamis and not all attributed to dropping litter on the streets.

thank you i was studeing it for a tast

Why the heck youre saying cleaning it up isnt an option

What if we stop making plastics and throw all we have in that GP??

shouldn't we be more concerned about this? Like isn't a patch of garbage the size of Texas REALLY bad for the sea life?

It just needs to be cleaned up A huge vacuum filters and recycled the clean water ba k to the ocean It can be done

well what about the ocean clean up project? itr will work

Shame this issue has not more exposure than the pop stars. How extravagant and careless the human race has become. Such a problem to will to the future generations

Well you learn something every day!

Is this host on the spectrum? I like his style

Make huge fines for the people putting plastic in the rivers, lakes and oceans !!!

I had to watch this for school it’s so outdated

thats kinda rude how they threw all that trash out

Near ***** (AK), coincidence ? I think not. Nuclear waste from testing MG-Rex's Nuke launcher gun !

There are bio degradable plastics that could solve the problem

where is the photos of the patch from above w a drone

We will end and eventually maybe start over.I recommend you to read a book named "Discover Atlantis" that has written by DIANA COOPER, SHAARON HUTTON

Find/create some form of life that eats plastic. Problem solved