Why 99% of ocean plastic pollution is "missing"

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The plastic we dump into the ocean might be hiding in plain sight.
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For the past several years scientists have been trying to account for the 8 million metric tonnes of plastic that we dump into the ocean each year. The assumption was that a large portion of it was floating out in one of the large garbage patches, where swirling debris accumulates thanks to ocean gyres. But recent measurements of the amount of trash in the patches fell far short of what’s thought to be out there.
Scientists are getting closer to an answer, which could help clean-up efforts and prevent further damage to marine life and ocean ecosystems.
In a previous version of this video, we mistakenly compared the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to the area of Australia. It is in fact roughly 1.6 million square kilometers, a little more than twice the size of the state of Texas. A huge area, but not nearly as big as Australia. Source: www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
For anyone interested in participating in the Ocean Conservancy's annual beach clean-up events, here is the link with information:
oceanconservancy.org/trash-fr...
For more reading, check out this New Yorker article on the missing plastic problem, which inspired this video:
www.newyorker.com/news/news-d...
Laurent Lebreton’s research that estimates the amount of debris in the garbage patches is here:
www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
For more about Ocean Conservancy’s work, and their annual international beach cleanup events:
oceanconservancy.org/
For more reading about Erik Van Sebille’s work:
erik.vansebille.com/
For more reading about Melanie Bergmann’s work:
www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22...
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@laurinrue7421 3 года назад

It's honestly concerning how little is being done about plastic pollution.

@zerno7610 3 года назад

@@emerickdeneb9621 may i know the name of the documentary?

@ArchieStiglitz 3 года назад

well.. duh?

@PremierCCGuyMMXVI 3 года назад

It’s sad tbh

@randomvideosipost6029 3 года назад

@zouooks the name is seaspiracy

@laurinrue7421 3 года назад

@@zerno7610 I think he's talking about seaspiracy, great documentary btw, I really recommend it

@Sicaoisdead 2 года назад

Governments around the world - "Wow yeah plastic seems like an issue... somebody should probably do something"

@JrTr_03 2 года назад

@@thisnametooktolong meh, probably (almost) every country

@DhinCardoso 2 года назад

The government is a scam, free the individuals and stop stealing their time and money with taxes and as individuals we will work it out.

@jamijones5885 2 года назад

Asia produces the waste ONLY because of the demand from rich countries.

@akinemainunangugel9650 2 года назад

@@thisnametooktolong nope... look at the brand... and the design ... even them can know it... its not just from asia ... haha

@Ella-sc9ss 2 года назад

@Sara Crouch Now it’s sad to hear this that my country ranks as the top 5 in this list but I think that we are trying our best. One of the most smartest thing here is that about 90ish % of all the plastic bottles and metal cans (used for drinks) are recycled. Why? That is because everytime you buy a drink that is in a metal can or in a plastic bottle, depending on the size 10 - 45 cents are added to the original price of the drink. And if u return those bottles to a grocery store, you get those 10 - 45 cents back. That is the reason why so many people return the bottles which are then recycled.

@epictube51 2 года назад

In a twisted way, Im actually relieved most of the plastic in the ocean stays near coastlines, meaning it can be cleaned or easily found

@axelbauron155 2 года назад

I was thinking the same but like said in the video, it's degraded faster by sand abrasion. And I think that 1. There is more marine life in those zones, especially all the coral reefs; 2. It can't be cleaned or picked up easily at all when it's underwater, even shallow waters. A lot of it must be buried too. Sorry, not fun.

@richardthompson5436 2 года назад

Most life lives along the coastline.

@samreynolds3789 2 года назад

NOPE, IT IS AT BOTTOM of ALL WATERWAYS !

@poppachoppa8956 10 месяцев назад

@@samreynolds3789 ah, an intellectual

@midnattsol6207 3 месяца назад

The problem is that it partly becomes granular. When you take a sample of sand on a beach, you'll see that quite some sand grains are made of plastic.

@Mark-ml3nv 2 года назад

I pick litter off my local beach almost every day. It's disheartening sometimes, because each year I see more than the last. This video encourage me to keep doing it. I live in North-west Ireland. I will always pick up face-masks, to protect the wildlife.

@reshii231 2 года назад

This is very admirable! Thank you so much for helping the environment 💕

@1nfect3d.86 2 года назад

Respect To You👍👏

@astronova6150 2 года назад

Cool. Want a cookie?

@ErickGTRZ 2 года назад

@@astronova6150 yea, i think they'd appreciate a cookie

@coolsolder 2 года назад

G-d bless you dude

@zofiamartin8187 2 года назад

I’m disappointed that Vox played into the narrative of putting the responsibility on individuals to pick up plastic off the beach. What about the millions of corporations producing plastic ??

@ryall1673 2 года назад

what about the millions of people, mainly countries in Asia with the mindset of "oh just throw it in the water and it will just be washed away"

@jimlincoln1283 2 года назад

YOU are the person who buys the product YOU are responsible to dispose of it not the company.

@antonjohansson5896 2 года назад

@@jimlincoln1283 you have a point, but most plastic debris isn't litter, or something you throw into the ocean. Its large scale dumping by corporations

@jimlincoln1283 2 года назад

@@antonjohansson5896 No it is not from corporations. It is from third-world nations.

@lzmunch 2 года назад

@@jimlincoln1283 multimillion international corporations in 3rd world countries, not consumers (even though their consumers may produce more litter than others).

@IbrahimAli-vv3df 3 года назад

So we hadn't explored all of the oceans, but our plastics had reached everywhere. Genius 101.

@moremitochondria2737 3 года назад

yup

@miriscika 3 года назад

add cameras or trackers on random plastics and see where it goes to find where other plastic usually stays and collect them

@PHlophe 3 года назад

Mashallah ! Ibra that's a good one. sad but true

@mistervgw8307 3 года назад

Redacted by the Rice Farming Foundation

@mistervgw8307 3 года назад

Redacted by the Rice Farming foundation.

@neonbunnies9596 2 года назад

An another important fact is that many people just assume that recycling is a black hole that magically makes plastic disappear. This has caused many of the items thrown into the recycling bin to not actually be recyclable. The less recyclable material, the less profitable recycling centers are, which forces them to close down and prevents new ones from opening up. It should also be noted that recycling was aggressive marketed my corporations, because it allowed to keep producing and selling plastic items while giving the appearance of being green. Remember there's a reason why recycling is the last of the 3 R's.

@heretic600 2 года назад

reading, writing, recycling?

@eustacehendrix9659 2 года назад

Racketeering, Robbing, Recycling?

@dankonesovic8437 Год назад

Repair, Reuse and Recycle. You have the point.

@marsovac Год назад

The fact that recycling centers need to be profitable in a capitalist world is a sign that we need to change the system. Capitalism is unsustainable in nature :/

@winnie8614 Год назад

@@marsovac yeah. Govenrment should sponsor recycling. And incentivise companies to produce less plastic or use recycled materials in first place.

@S3m57 Год назад

Sad thing is when we pick it up and throw it away, unless it is sent to a recycling facility, it just ends up somewhere else where it doesn't belong.

@JanHDD Год назад

Even recycling facilities just usually landfill your stuff lol

@waltbroedner4754 Год назад

We are destroying the planet just so that a few can become billionaires. We do not recycle, that was/is just another lie from those who profit from it.

@culi7068 Год назад

And even recycling takes energy to do. In addition most of the plastics people recycle aren't even actually recyclable so they just end up in the landfills or the ocean regardless. People NEED to stop thinking about these materials as "disposable"

@captainkurt8802 12 дней назад

Yup. And if garbage bags are used to collect it then more plastic has been added to the existing problem. I think it's still better to collect and sort it than to leave it (at least this provides the option of it being dealt with responsibly), especially if it's in a sensitive area, but it does feel like a losing battle at times. When I do go out and do some cleanup, I usually use reusable buckets to collect so I'm not adding to the problem. Seeing these cleanup operations with piles of hundreds of full garbage bags seems counter-intuitive to me... Why not just rent a couple large garbage bins and then hand out 5-gallon buckets to the volunteers?

@youngzm 3 года назад

I'm a scuba diver and I physically cannot carry enough garbage (I try anyways) that's hidden under our surface on an excursion. Local lakes, rivers, in the ocean... it's everywhere and it's so sad.

@moranasprowler 3 года назад

The terrible thing is, until functional process is developed for handling it, collecting it is just moving it from one place to another. My heart brakes for animals. (recycling covers so little, better than nothing but percentages are devastating)

@bubblingbubztheklown5902 3 года назад

Thank you for trying though. Before this last year I would pick up any trash I walked by. Sometimes walking through a parking lot or park just from walking to and from my car and sometimes I have hand full. Can't imagine trying in the ocean....

@golgoldgolem1366 3 года назад

I stopped scuba diving due to the deep psychological damage caused by seeing plastic laying around and after seeing animals in distress or chewing plastic stuff

@gerri577 3 года назад

thank you for your efforts!

@adampilot8275 3 года назад

I'm a diver like yourself Zac and find it so disheartening when I see more garbage than marine life. But like yourself I pick that garbage up. Nice to know I'm not the only one.

@pierregutierrez9372 3 года назад

It’s not that surprising how fast we can produce plastic, but at the same time, how it takes millennia to find those which we lose.

@ayushonkar850 3 года назад

Humans are the worst thing that has happened to this planet

@PremierCCGuyMMXVI 3 года назад

@@ayushonkar850 earth done goofed lol

@moremitochondria2737 3 года назад

Its sad really

@lessartico9163 3 года назад

@@ayushonkar850 "HuMaNs ArE tHe WoRsT tHiNg tHaT hAs HapPeNeD tO tHiS pLaNeT" - this is idiotic. Yes we are bad for the planet itself but at the same time you only live once - if u want to actually do some good for it go and pickup litter, in the meantime i will be drunk on a beach eating ice cream. This planet is lucky to have us. We are great!

@ihazplawe2503 3 года назад

@@lessartico9163 But nature isn't lucky for because of how many ecosystems we have destroyed

@genericcreator6467 2 года назад

The Ocean cleanup is a company that is dedicated to cleaning up trash from the ocean, they have river interceptors that clean up major factors in ocean pollution, and are working on cleaning up that ocean trash dump near CA, they're gaining ground and a sizeable amount of funding including a workforce and several ships. All their designs are fish-friendly and they're going emissions free soon. (Please correct me on any of this if it's wrong but i checked and believe this is all right)

@hatespeach9835 2 года назад

its a scam...tax payers

@genericcreator6467 2 года назад

@@hatespeach9835 its...not?

@smiley7399 2 года назад

@@hatespeach9835 It's not even close..

@avastihulkoti5009 2 года назад

@@hatespeach9835 not even close to government

@josevladimiraustria2736 2 года назад

The maker of it want country to buys his invention. In reality that thing doesn’t really solve the root of the problem. Which is people throwing their garbage anywhere. No matter how many times you clean the ocean or rivers with that thing it will remain polluted as long as people are not responsible in their waste management.

@paulbatz7935 2 года назад

"Go Back to Glass," should be a slogan for returning to a glass containers/deposit system. It mirrors "Go Back to Start," game squares.

@johnallen2771 3 года назад

I was in the US Coast Guard in the 70's in this area and I remember when we came upon it the first time. It was appalling and about a mile wide. Just tens of thousands of six-pack plastics and garbage. That's in addition to all the oil leaked by freighters whenever they came into LA. The whole ocean had those glimmers of oil patches everywhere. I don't know how the fish are able to breathe.

@malcolmotoole 3 года назад

if that was in the 70s I don't think I want to know how bad it is now.

@rafangille 3 года назад

@@malcolmotoole it’s probably not as bad actually, i think there’s more environmental laws now

@malcolmotoole 3 года назад

@@rafangille Regardless, plastic production and consumption has increased massively every year, and into other countries which don't have good pollution regulations. Production of clothing with synthetic fibers like polyester which release micro-plastics into water systems has increased massively in the last 50 years. I bet the level of micro-plastics in drinking water is probably higher than ever. Anecdotally, everytime I go to the lakes and rivers where i live i can pick up a few pocketfuls of plastic litter. I think you're probably right though that we don't have so much oil leaking out of ships and that kind of stuff though nowadays.

@oeautobody3586 3 года назад

All we have done for YEARS is study the problem, all that money could've been for clean up.

@0xsergy 3 года назад

@@oeautobody3586 yep..then an 18 yr old kid came along with his ocean cleaning robot..

@tacticalgajan9836 3 года назад

Kinda scary to think how much plastic we produce while taking barely any action. This issue is becoming a task for future generations sadly.

@Leggeh1 3 года назад

And that is why the problem persists.. It is a task for our current generation, NOT for future generations.

@callistoarmy5576 3 года назад

Because I'm not famous like other singers that's why no one see my singing videos. Just see once❤.......

@hisham5702 3 года назад

@@callistoarmy5576 no

@KrinchiD 3 года назад

We should be charging the corporations that produce all of this waste a fee to clean up this mess.

@vuvzstar868 3 года назад

An impossible task..

@uptone12111 2 года назад

Great study. Everyone needs to speak out against single use containers.

@ThePlantParadigm Год назад

We definitely need some initiatives from individuals AS WELL AS corporations and governments to really address this issue in a sustainable way!

@melcher44 Год назад

Yeah go after China 🇨🇳

@Furykidxxx 3 года назад

Massive respect to everyone who volunteers for cleaning up shorelines!

@PaulTheSkeptic 3 года назад

Thanks. 😊

@rudra7615 3 года назад

That's all us bi**** do, say thanks but continue to throw plastic like it is someone else's problem. Welcome to life

@mattynek2 3 года назад

@@PaulTheSkeptic Hero

@PaulTheSkeptic 3 года назад

@@mattynek2 Oh no come on. My son had to do all this community service for his school so we found ourselves at beach cleanups quite often. I'm not a hero. Just an involved father.

@mattynek2 3 года назад

@@PaulTheSkeptic thanks for making Earth 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000001% cleaner

@ellevalerie6521 3 года назад

Just like the 'Stone Age' or the 'Iron Age', in the future, our era will be referred to as the 'Plastic Age'.

@hhcdfhngdzjjbf579 3 года назад

I bet "technological age" will be more prominent, just simply due to the societal impact technology has had on the last few decades, and will have in the coming centuries.

@traphomebaby 3 года назад

Cillicone era ?

@LoveHikaru 3 года назад

"the Petroleum Age"

@livonia1807 3 года назад

pretty optimistic to think there is going to be an era after this

@Nemo7The7Pirate7 3 года назад

Nah, plastic age was a bit earlier, we live in the glass age.

@ignabigna6357 Год назад

the funniest thing to me is that ocean clean up is put in plastic bags. People are so dependent on plastic that they use more plastic to clean up plastic

@roberthiggins1796 2 года назад

My dad always taught me don’t just look at it . Pick it up . This should be all of our mindset . Even the camera crew

@rickbeckett9102 2 года назад

Pick it up and put it where though?? Consolidated trash

@allison0830 3 года назад

It’s so frustrating knowing that local recycling centers only take CERTAIN types of plastic. This country needs to do something beyond ‘picking it up’ and cleaning....

@jakep9643 3 года назад

Hemp cellulose plastic is the future, more hemp in all industries would help. Along with cleaning. As for landfills, the future will see plastic eating bacteria and fungus. Just Say No to oil and plastic, and say yes to hemp.

@StrokeMahEgo 3 года назад

Especially since every plastic is technically recyclable. It's just not always profitable to do, which is why they don't bother.

@ImBarryScottCSS 3 года назад

@@StrokeMahEgo Anything is technically recyclable. With enough time and energy anything can be broken down to its constituents, but that's exactly the problem, plastic creates a lot of pollution when it's made, and then a whole lot more when it's 'recycled', it doesn't go into a magic box and come out the the other side a bottle, that takes energy.

@derek-64 3 года назад

@@StrokeMahEgo which goes to show they're more concerned about the money which is not the right kind of attitude for this. Don't worry so much about the money and focus more on improving waste management.

@hanspeterqwe6620 3 года назад

@@jakep9643 There's tens of thousands of different "plastics", I doubt there will ever be a bacteria capable of eating plastic im general.

@johnhaaland74 3 года назад

"Take another look at plastic". If you're old like me, you might remember these words from the 1970s. This AD campaign was used to try to get everyone to accept this great new material. If only we could have seen the future. Now we are certainly injesting it in the seafood we consume. And the story isn't over. More bad news to come...

@trashyfangirl2394 3 года назад

You hit the nail on the head I've seen a video of looking at canned tuna fish under a microscope, it has microplastic strands in it sadly (it can be assumed that it's plastic that the tuna fish digested)

@daveycrocker4466 3 года назад

Like nuclear waste or oil spills.

@dregling5884 3 года назад

Bible was right.

@alllbw 3 года назад

Exxon knew

@user-bl4oq7fd8d 3 года назад

trees were like this as well in the past... Nothing could really digest the newly developed lignin and they were just piling up for about 140 millions years!!! Over those 140 million years they "sank into the ground" and became oil. Now we use the same oil to create another substance that can't be naturally broken down and the cycle continues :P

@lilalpaca9847 8 месяцев назад

We need to penalize the companies for selling the plastics. They are the ones making the money off this.

@michellemalinovskaya7589 2 года назад

Vox does a really good job at packing lost of information into a short video. definitely will be volunteering at plastic clean ups

@NixonAngelo 3 года назад

I carry a trash bag with me anytime I go to the beach or hiking! I recommend everyone do it even if it's small EDIT: I use biodegradable/compostable bags. I didn't know picking up trash was so controversial 😂

@roninmbattousai 3 года назад

Same here, i always have one in my car along with a fresh set of gloves and a grabby stick and also carry a mesh bag when scuba diving since everytime i dive i find at least one product of pollution.

@gamebred5662 3 года назад

I do the same. Also while fishing. Its RIDICULOUS how much trash I pick up while fishing. I'll completely clean one spot, come back a month later an it's like I never cleaned it at all. I hate people.

@NixonAngelo 3 года назад

@@roninmbattousai yes! That's awesome!

@AlecsNeo 3 года назад

The problem is what happens with the bag of trash after you discard it in a bin. Chances are it's being sold to a poor country that then dumps it into the ocean

@roninmbattousai 3 года назад

@@AlecsNeo Totally agree that it isn't the right approach fully as refusal is the first and most critical step. But even if it is slightly delayed or has the possibility to be processed correctly then the effort is worth it. Now for at least the states, there is a pretty solid chance that the trash will be properly handled to a landfill if you process to trash (since we aren't talking about the massive problem with the recycling industry as a whole as well), which of course then you are trading up issues with the ocean for issues with the fresh water and soil areas. If you separate to recycling then it is dependent on a few more factors beyond that. So yeah, it's definitely not the best but really without there being overall less of us or more of us caring about the issues/doing our small part if possible then it will never improve regardless. Plastic should be heavily reduced in its manufacturing for anything real to change in a lifetime (which requires people to not have convience which is the primary reason for nothing to change).

@MrOoooskar 3 года назад

While I agree with general video message, I don't think we exclusively should be the ones to clean up this mess. Big corporations that are key drivers of this for years tried to blame it on the little guy. We should hold them accountable for their actions, through taxes and other redeeming incentives.

@MinecraftManiac300 3 года назад

I wish they included this in the video

@legrandliseurtri7495 3 года назад

And what are big corporations made of? That's right, people.

@phobics9498 3 года назад

@@legrandliseurtri7495 and?

@dakalomaginya6769 3 года назад

Huge companies such as those that make bottled water, plastic bags, retail companies should be the ones to clean up their mess. They make profit out of these products. They are responsible.

@aayushbhat188 3 года назад

Big corporations make these products because the little guy buys them. So the blame is on everyone and the responsibility to clean is on everyone too

@maedesmond2461 8 месяцев назад

I remember sometimes camping at this place we called Garbage Beach in Hawai'i. The garbage was more sun bleached and rubbed down like sea glass, and rather pretty in terms of plastic trash. You could see that so much of had come from Asia based on writing on some objects. As well, some you could see was from the 90s or 80s. Craziness...

@shoking9825 Год назад

the whole world: we use square kilometers americans: ok so this place is twice the size of texas

@rmac3217 2 месяца назад

I know right, everyone knows the best way to measure size is with football fields and height with Empire State Buildings, Texas's is just weird.

@nik_evdokimov 3 года назад

Let's appreciate the work those researchers and volunteers are doing!

@Puleczech 3 года назад

Appreciation of their work is not enough. Each one of us has to use at least a tiny bit less of plastics and produce less garbage in general. That includes me and YOU reading this.

@tusharzhade9364 3 года назад

@Joe Blow why

@tusharzhade9364 3 года назад

@Joe Blow fair enough

@molw9954 3 года назад

@Joe Blow ily

@alwanosuarez9022 3 года назад

@Joe Blow i don't get the joke

@jaggerfoxland8103l 3 года назад

1900: picking up shells from the beaches 2010: picking up trash from the beaches Edit: *Plastic trash

@berreyl1689 3 года назад

even before during the 20th and 19th Century, plastic pollution in ocean already exist, that's all started during Industrial Revolution

@angelikaskoroszyn8495 3 года назад

When I was a kid I was collecting glass shards on beach. Since they were smoothed by sand they weren't dangerous for a child to touch but still. I was basically collecting trash

@karlyrodenburg2776 3 года назад

@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 same. We called it sea glass. I have at least a bucket full, luckily I haven’t been able to find any more, since the beach near me banned glass bottles and other trash

@JNCressey 3 года назад

@@angelikaskoroszyn8495, although, glass is just a rock, so you could make the same trash collecting claim about collecting pebbles you suspect of being formed from bricks etc.

@osaretinedomwonyi5719 3 года назад

I guess they pick up my dancing skills

@jonmitchell9019 Год назад

When I was a young kid in the late 80's and early 90's I remember my Dad saying that we will have this problem when everything was glass. Glass is a easier to recycle and reuse. We sometimes need to turn the clock back to what worked before.

@generoush3823 2 года назад

I spent 16 years in the Navy between 1978 and 1994 and was stationed in San Diego, I have floated through the area where the great pacific dump is supposed to be many tines going to and from deployments and exercises and have never seen that.

@HoshikawaHikari 3 года назад

The worst thing is when your country has the resources to construct facilities to process plastic wastes, and does not do it, instead just land filling it all~ Recently a garbage dump near my house has caught fire, explaining the smells of burning plastic for the past few days

@fahimp3 2 года назад

Is this in Japan?

@user-bz7is1kg4r 2 года назад

@@earledward8766 japan uses a lot of plastics, in konbini, cafes, any product has plastics yea we have these recycling things but still its better to reduce than keep using i think

@gjeraldh2989 2 года назад

@@user-bz7is1kg4r is your profile pic the default pic from Google?

@marunomi 2 года назад

@@fahimp3 No, he lives in Malaysia.

@dilaxinho1077 2 года назад

@@fahimp3 Probably. Japan is the #1 exporter of plastic waste in the world, and has been for a while.

@terramater 3 года назад

Thanks Laura, great video & insight into this issue as always. In fact, our underwater wildlife videographers are experiencing a tremendous increase of the impact on ocean ecosystems stemming from plastic pollution. And it comes down to the unsighted. You mention the most common origins of plastic pollution at around 08:00, yet what almost nobody is aware of, is that our clothes are also full with it and cause a flood of plastic garbage.

@klepie3874 3 года назад

really good point. I honestly didn't know about the microplastics in our clothes until kind of recently, which just puts into perspective how destructive/wasteful i was being before i realized that.

@dontcheckmychannel6206 3 года назад

Hallo

@saulgonzalez6427 3 года назад

But this is not enough, you should check "seaspiracy" and spread the real message

@whythehelldoineedahandle 3 года назад

@@dontcheckmychannel6206 ur name tho

@dontcheckmychannel6206 3 года назад

@@saulgonzalez6427 do you love eggs

@3rdandlong 2 года назад

I learned a few years ago about an organization called, "4 Oceans". They do an incredible job of cleaning up beaches all over the planet that has plastic trash. This gives me hope seeing and hearing about these organizations that are doing this work.

@darkhelmet12e47 Год назад

Those organizations are just there to distract people from the real polluters.

@3rdandlong Год назад

@@darkhelmet12e47 Well I wouldn't exactly call them a distraction if they are doing some good by cleaning up plastic pollution.

@dvst_tv 2 года назад

The ocean cleanup project also cleans up where rivers meet the ocean, dealing with another large portion of plastics at coast lines. I don't see how we will ever clean the sedimentary plastics or the macroplastics at the bottom of the ocean though.

@Showmetheevidence- 3 года назад

So scary and so sad. Most of the world is either ignorant, doesn’t care, or simply doesn’t realise the impact is so big.

@kjjosker 3 года назад

The vast majority of ocean plastic pollution is due to third world countries using their rivers as garbage dumps, start there. All of you people that are using reusable straws and bags are doing literally nothing except making yourselves feel morally superior.

@None-zc5vg 3 года назад

@@kjjosker Those people who sort their garbage religiously for recycling are suckers for yet another juicy international racket that sees much of their junk dumped anywhere, indiscriminately.

@myles432 3 года назад

Yeah, they don’t care sadly

@stormtruppen4039 3 года назад

It's preparation for end of all days. Every living beings except humans wil start to become extinct and the the day of reckoning will happen. It's coming near

@matttejada7381 3 года назад

People will only care when they are directly affected and when things get really really worse, that's why whenever I see people throw their trash in the sea near my house I get so angry but I know that no matter how much I try to persuade them to avoid doing it they won't listen because they feel that they are being attacked personally, like, what the actual dumbfuckery.

@twoworlds8610 3 года назад

Gift from us to next generations. The full time job of our kids cleaning up our mess.

@TheAkashicTraveller 3 года назад

Interestingly enough this actually happened once before. When plants first evolved cellulose and lignin there was nothing that could break it down and so dead plants just kept piling up without decaying. It took around 60 million years for microbes that could break the stuff down arrived and plant finaly started decaying again. Anyway long story short this is where around 90% of coal came from.

@franklee8478 3 года назад

Don't have kids then

@akshatshah3717 3 года назад

@@franklee8478 he means future generations you dimwitted pinecone

@franklee8478 3 года назад

@@akshatshah3717I know, I'm not talking about him. People in general should not have kids.

@vigneshsk369 3 года назад

@@franklee8478 ok

@Zeldarw104 2 года назад

I would love to partake in this activity, I just try to do my best/part at home.🤔 Keep up the good work I'm rooting for you guys.

@crossious4474 2 года назад

Thank you for this video. It makes a heck of a lot of sense.

@luvuyomashalaba4689 3 года назад

Big corporations need to foot the bill for the clean-up - it is their mess after all.

@PHlophe 3 года назад

Vuyo, and the entire military complex of america. that alone has the GPD of canada.

@PaendaTube 3 года назад

I mean it should be China's responsibility, they pollute more plastics than anyone else. Military budget has nothing to do with the economics of pollution. You pollute less there's less pollution. We just need to make countries responsible for their pollution. And that's asia, asia is the largest plastic pollution contributor with China leading with a large margin. If we can successfully regulate China's plastic pollution we could prevent around 8,000,000 tonnes of plastic entering the waters. Vox is clearly being funded at some level by a Chinese person or else the conclusion to this video would have been we need to regulate asia on being the leaders in plastic pollution

@zedantXiang 3 года назад

NO SHUT UP. Its OUR problem, america can be great again if you guys stop blaming others

@Charcoal__ 3 года назад

@@zedantXiang yes but Asia accounts for most of the worlds pollution alone even if we went to 0% carbon today we would still need other countries help.

@ih82r8 3 года назад

Coke forces you to drink their product and then throw the empty bottle off a pier? Okay.

@1Mhoram9 3 года назад

There are companies that are cleaning it up, but what we really need to do is go back to using glass in what we can.

@sehleh3194 3 года назад

Plastic is the way to go, but only if humanity can operate this properly. Most of the outcome we observe is the reason of one way policy. Recycling is called such for a reason.

@hassmanSMO 3 года назад

Unfortunately glass takes more energy to make.

@hassmanSMO 3 года назад

@@sehleh3194 however recycling has proved inefficient and most countries cant keep up with the demand in plastic waste so they used to sell their garbage.

@robertjensen1048 3 года назад

Horrible idea. Littered broken glass lasts forever. As in like thousands of years. I could take you to dozens of places in the desert where careless people have left tons of broken glass. Some of it hasn’t moved in over 30 years, and hasn’t degraded one iota.

@sehleh3194 3 года назад

@@hassmanSMO Looks for me as one whole another topic of descussion. If one country can afford recycling garbage it's all about structuring the system which will work well every way possible. Only two ingredients needed such as money and desire to be efficient. Easily may be wrong im not any kind of closeby to any of this :)

@verazaborskaya2859 2 года назад

Thank you for doing this amazing and very important job!!!!

@AnonymousOnimous 2 года назад

Let's hear it for TeamSeas raising $30 million to get 30 million pounds of plastic from the ocean, including beach clean ups!

@TheBlobik 3 года назад

This is actually semi-positive news. The main problem with the ocean garbage patches is that they are not easy to clean up. The beach cleanup operations are actually a bit easier to do.

@jamesbrown99991 3 года назад

@A B how so?

@jholotanbest2688 3 года назад

Do you actually think we will ever clean any of this? We have way more pressing problems like stopping the dumping of plastic into the ocean and that would be easy to fix compared to combing trough billions and billions of hectares of ocean for micro plastic.

@jonathanodude6660 3 года назад

@@jholotanbest2688 best way to start is to pick up litter you see on the street

@jholotanbest2688 3 года назад

@sen touji I guess dumping was the wrong word. I didn't mean that we should line our shores with police stopping dump trucks. I meant that we should first address how all of this plastic is getting into to the ocean in the first place. And the only real solution to that problem is to reduce the amount of plastic we use.

@gearoidp 3 года назад

@@jholotanbest2688 it would obviously be a matter of priority and ease. If there was ever an effort to clean up. We would first clean up what is the easiest to get to. It's much easier/cheaper to get it at the coastline than in the vast ocean. -600,000 km of coastline. -350,000,000 square km of ocean. Which sounds easier to clean to you? Yes, we need to stop excessive use of plastic. But, it doesn't mean we just dismiss the problem of ocean plastic.

@lorenzomanini1017 3 года назад

I colletted 15kg of plastic and garbage with my gf on Apr 18th, it was Italy national plastic free day. Let's redo it all together on the international one on July the 3rd and clean it up! :D 10kg from each of us every year and we can defeat this mess

@idk._.9958 3 года назад

What did you do with it tho? A recycle center?

@lorenzomanini1017 3 года назад

@@idk._.9958 We recycle daily trash in Italy but you can't do it with this 'cause deteriorated materials aren't recycable at all. Or if there's a way, our current system doesn't cover it. So we bring it to the dump. Not ideal, i know, but better then leave it in our forests.

@vinitkarankal9481 3 года назад

@@lorenzomanini1017 But how did you collect all this stuff?? Like in a truck or something else?? And was it not difficult for 2 people to collect this amount of plastic? (BTW great job)

@darthdaddy6983 3 года назад

Grazie mille 🙏

@lorenzomanini1017 3 года назад

@@vinitkarankal9481 Ahah no no i said we collected both plastic and other types of garbage 😂 so there was also heavyer stuff than plastic. Aproximately it was a bit less than a cube meter.

@nikispaniki 2 года назад

An eye opener for me was being in a sea bird rookery and seeing how much plastic was in the guano. At first I thought it was crustacean shells until I saw the various colors. As much plastic as manure.

@philflip1963 8 месяцев назад

We've got to start to didposing of plastic responsibly, even it were jus meled down and conglomerated into blocks that could be buried somewhere this would be a great improvement.

@moller4u 3 года назад

A shout out to the Dutch, who are specialists in cleaning Oceans! We need more of them!

@snbanimation1 3 года назад

We don’t need more of them , we should be like them

@snbanimation1 3 года назад

We don’t need more of them , we should be like them and learn from them

@moller4u 3 года назад

Exactly!

@PHlophe 3 года назад

@@moller4u they also produce plenty of their own. I'd say the US military budget if reduced by just 2% could help clean up half of their own coasts. similarly if most europeans stopped selling weapons across the globe for a year at least we could manage this crisis.

@xhafts 3 года назад

No theyre not 😂

@untunggawicaksono5050 3 года назад

before pandemic came, I used to always go to various beaches in my country with my family every school break, and then i went to one beach and i was on my way to the car and saw local people who live and work like opening shops close to the beach are burrying their trash in the beach 😭 they literally dug big holes at the beach and burry the trash, and not just one person who did that but many

@vwgl1169 3 года назад

omg where is this

@untunggawicaksono5050 3 года назад

@@vwgl1169 it's one of the beaches in jember, Indonesia but i forgot the name tho :(

@dogabc6296 3 года назад

That's so sad I wonder if they know the harms it could do :(

@lilianp.8310 3 года назад

Omg they’re literally like,”if I can’t see it, they don’t exist,” 😭😭😭

@kathys1285 3 года назад

This is why this is a never ending problem you will never ever get rid of all the plastic and garbage from our oceans because PEOPLE ARE LITTER BUGS 🐛 and might I add PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING

@billotto602 2 месяца назад

I recycle religiously. Yet I've seen articles saying very little plastics ARE recyclable ! WTH OVER ?

@yaromirlantsov 2 года назад

Its weird that they say most of the plastics are from us individuals, but the footage shows they are picking fishing nets, and large boxes, which are used by industries!!

@faisalsiddiqui4475 3 года назад

I feel like penalising companies that produce plastic, and making them fund the beach cleanups and ocean clean ups

@AnimMouse 3 года назад

Who buys from companies that produce plastics?

@nicholassteenkamp7621 3 года назад

Should punish both

@Name56784 3 года назад

@@nicholassteenkamp7621 both the cleanups and the companies?

@ongakira 3 года назад

@@Name56784 no the beach and the companies

@disobeytoday4685 3 года назад

Start with the DuPont corporation. They started it. They also helped suppress biodegradable non toxic Hemp based alternatives

@T3WI 3 года назад

In high school I was told that the size of the garbage patch was the size of Texas, and now it’s Australia? That’s unsettling.

@tophatmetagross1497 3 года назад

I really didn’t want to be that guy who corrects people, but idk if this is a joke moment or not. They said in the description that it’s twice the size of Texas not Australia.

@christineagnew7372 3 года назад

plus also 5 such ocean garbage patches, not just one.

@NightcorEDM 3 года назад

I like your anime pfp

@ace_stallion 3 года назад

@@tophatmetagross1497 twice the size of Texas is roughly the size of Australia

@DharlZifer 3 года назад

@@ace_stallion "Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 1,042% larger than Texas." 2 seconds to google :)

@xgt1000 2 года назад

Good video. Hopefully everyone does their part so we can all together do a small part that we owe this grand planet.

@philpotts3893 2 года назад

Thanks for this short education..very well done.

@Freerunx3 3 года назад

My friend visited India, Bangalore, considered to be one if the most developed cities in India. He took pictures of people bulldozing(literally using heavy machinery at dump sites located next to rivers) trash into rivers in the middle of the city. If that can't be stopped, banning straws in US is not doing anything.

@myblacklab7 3 года назад

@Nekes12 War is not very environmental.

@ameyargade4787 3 года назад

The sad thing is.. we won't do anything about it ( at a required scale ) cause we're so focused on the politics and greed and other problems that we'll not realise the damage until it's too late.

@0xsergy 3 года назад

just like climate change it'll be too little too late.

@thatlawnmowerguy9 3 года назад

Yes we live in a capitalist society this is nothing new

@ameyargade4787 3 года назад

@@thatlawnmowerguy9 @0xsergy true

@ameyargade4787 3 года назад

@@0xsergy yup

@cobinasaur 3 года назад

Capitalism bad, me no like society. And I can't say I disagree.

@santiagoqr1 Год назад

It made me sad to see a laundry basket in “perfect” condition, it’s not cracked and still works as a laundry basket, yet someone, in some part of the world decided that it didn’t serve its purpose any more, and that they didn’t need it any longer, and just went ahead and tossed it, without ever knowing that it would end up in the ocean. Please, always be conscious of the plastic you acquire and how you get rid of it, even if you use it for many many years, it still will have 500+ more years on earth.

@hory-portier 2 месяца назад

I came here from the video of ocean cleanup interceptor cleaning the river after the storm before all the trash gets to the ocean. Wouldn't doing that take the trash away before it can spread to the beaches or sink to the bottom, as it's still fresh?

@incrediblesultan8169 3 года назад

"The actions of what we do may not affect us now. But it will affect us later."

@iamsandhu8664 3 года назад

Exactly

@chaseo4557 3 года назад

maybe

@sueyoung2115 3 года назад

The "First Nations" people of the USA tried to teach respect for seven generations. Shameful that so many people ignored that wisdom.

@audie6348 3 года назад

Wow, very groundbreaking stuff

@Boojyman 3 года назад

"A circle has no corners"

@memphispatriot 2 года назад

So, are we going to just going to study this forever or are we going to clean it up?

@kawaiidoggo 2 года назад

It's not that easy to just "clean it up". No matter how many times we clean up our ocean, our annual emission of plastic into the ocean will negate any efforts we put into "clean up". For now studying how plastic pollution effects our ecosystem and where our plastic pollution ends up at is the best course of action in cleaning up our garbage patch. We need to reduce our trash and reduce use of plastics before we can clean up our ocean. Whatever clean up we commit to, we need to change our economy around plastics.

@memphispatriot 2 года назад

@@kawaiidoggo I understand that but I don't know how many times I have seen 'studies' being done on this massive floating island of garbage... Instead of studying it, let's clean it up and figure a way to keep it out of the ocean...

@FIXTREME 2 года назад

@@kawaiidoggo That's b.s. BOTH cleaning the ocean and studying are key, not one or the other. Negligible improvements are still better than 0 improvements

@kawaiidoggo 2 года назад

@@FIXTREME yes you are correct. But at the rate of plastic polluting our ocean, it's better to understand all our alternatives. Taking actions creates an effect. In order to clean up the amount of garbage in our ocean, we will have to take a magnitude of energy so great that it can be detrimental to our climate. Studying for right now is best course of action. Why? When we finally understand, how much plastic is impacting our entire ocean, we will understand where we should mitigate plastic dumps. Should it be before we dump into ocean? Probably yes. But if it's in our ocean, at what point is it energy efficient and cost saving to clean up our ocean? These questions are still up to debate. Yeah we are currently taking considerable amount of energy and effort to clean up our ocean. But even we massive organizational effort and governmental support, we aren't really seeing any changes. Studies are best way to see how to deal with this situation. We have too limited understanding of our ocean current and ocean ecology that we can't comprehend how much "clean up" we need. I'm not saying we should halt any effort to clean up our ocean but we shouldn't make it bigger than deal than scientific studies into our ocean ecology. We barely scratch the surface on ocean ecology. We only know on the surface on how plastic affects our ecology. Shouldn't we probably get a bigger picture before we can create problem we didn't intent?

@woxnerw 2 года назад

Talking about IT makes more money for this Organization.. We need to have the FACT CHECKERS look into THIS ISSUE.. The Operators of VOX is making a TON of Money off of producing this STUFF.. There a lot of money to be made by telling people what They are doing wrong..

@AlanasExperience Год назад

My question is: What to do with all the plastic collected which is then placed in yet hundreds of more plastic bags as seen at 8:59?

@karolinakuc4783 7 месяцев назад

Companies that sell drinks in bottles in plastic could be making them thinner. That would reduce plastic pollution and cut costs

@stevedyoutube 3 года назад

When I was a child, I saw sea shells on the beach. Now children see plastics. Very sad. WTG everyone, especially volunteers, who picks up beach trash.

@vagabond630 3 года назад

I'm 26 now. When I was a child, I saw tonnes of plastic on the Seashore. It has been a while I went to the beach. I can't Imagine how much more plastic is there now.

@jdubs604 3 года назад

That’s life. Welcome.

@walkinaxyl 3 года назад

I pick up trash when I go to the shore, but I also find shells and beach treasures. Maybe people need to be more mindful with their trash.

@anthonypoore 3 года назад

I go to the beach a lot you need your city to do their job if your beach is not clean. That sounds like a local issue

@anthonypoore 3 года назад

Sorry just too many contradictions

@bnew5394 3 года назад

I don’t live by an ocean but anytime I’m visiting one, my mom and I always pick up trash which I’ve noticed usually gets people near us to pick up trash too! So sad to think what we’ve done to ourselves 😕

@tubeguy4066 3 года назад

We didn't do this, subhumans did

@knightmor- 3 года назад

@@tubeguy4066 we have a bit of subhuman in all of us

@sinistargaming 3 года назад

@@knightmor- Don't blame the average person for this

@CoolDestroyer360 3 года назад

@@sinistargaming The average person consumes fossil fuels.

@bc1173 3 года назад

@@tubeguy4066 i blame you personally for this.

@StraveTube 2 года назад

Did anyone else get an ad for USP plastic bottles before this video? I live how tone-deaf RU-vid ads are sometimes. Truly incredible.

@reinoud6377 2 года назад

In the 80's they used to sieve the tourist beaches here mechanically for say a 20 cm deep or so to remove all the cigarette buds and (then) can opening lids. I wonder if they still do that and if its suitable for other sandy beaches

@khensane5150 3 года назад

“It’s only one straw,” said 8 billion people. 😔

@jnuval 3 года назад

Better than throwing out 8 billion steel straws.

@noefvon 3 года назад

@@jnuval just drink it from the glass

@somethung8188 3 года назад

@@jnuval Steel straws are reusable. And plus, people dont use one plastic straw, they use hundreds if not thousands in their life.

@StrokeMahEgo 3 года назад

Plastic straws account for very little of ocean plastic waste. Mostly because they're easily recycled.

@jnuval 3 года назад

@@somethung8188 I've already thrown out multiple "reusable" straws because even with the cleaning brush, it still doesn't clean properly.

@rabdimrzi 2 года назад

0:04 Texas is now the new official measuring standard

@mariusvanc 2 года назад

I need to know how many Toyota Corollas that is, or how many baby elephants.

@frusties1817 2 года назад

They will use any measuring standard except the metric system

@starothesea 2 года назад

that’s why i find it hilarious that my school had a researcher come present just to tell us plastic wasn’t an issue we had to worry about, as if we aren’t informed in other ways

@michaelslater6839 Год назад

At minute 3:30 when the scientist says, “We use towed camera set ups to look at the impact of plastics on large animals like Starfish and Snails, fungus.” Either she misunderstands the meaning of the word large, or her concept of the words “Large animals” puts everything into a different perspective.

@obsoleteoptics 3 года назад

Imagine mixing salt and pepper together. Now imagine trying to separate the salt and pepper after they've been mixed together. That's the task we face.

@LaFonteCheVi 3 года назад

@Jamie B Yea, except it is young people who are gung-ho and deeply invested in this problem where as the older generations caused it and keep denying it. Get off your pedestal grandpa. You're the problem. The overwhelming majority of people under 30 believe in climate change, support policy like the Green New Deal, support holding corporations accountable, and constantly push for solving the plastic problem.

@Thorgard360 3 года назад

That would actually be pretty easy. Dissolve the salt in water then strain out the pepper from the mixture, allow water to dry, you have just separated salt and pepper. Lol 😆

@obsoleteoptics 3 года назад

@@Thorgard360 you're a genius 👏🙌✨👌❤♥

@jacobandersen9912 3 года назад

@@obsoleteoptics Nah he just took introductory chemistry.

@pp-mb2gc 3 года назад

@@Thorgard360 ok now how do we solve the plastic in the ocean problem??

@sashakys 3 года назад

imagine the amount of masks in the ocean…

@thatonemulattokid.1847 3 года назад

Right!

@drawingdead9025 3 года назад

And every one of them not a N95 was completely worthless in stopping Covid-84.

@Alvionalx 3 года назад

@@drawingdead9025 covid-84,!?!?!?!?!?!!!!

@mitchlate3710 3 года назад

I went to Sarasota last week and their were cloth masks already in the water

@phantasmaleye3879 3 года назад

@@drawingdead9025 In what way do they hit close to home for the democrats? I don't believe they incited an insurrection against democracy.

@kexcz8276 2 года назад

This always horifies me, even tho I dont live in a seashore state, but in Czechia. And yes, I see some polution here as well, but its not as much as in the ocean. I also see its getting little better, but slowly, too slowly. Its better to replace useless parts of products with paper, which at least disolves into a wooden fiber mess , than nothing. But I think that if every country doesnt help, we will never beat that problem. In the EU, here its done a lot of recycling, but for example in the africa or USA not too much or totally not, and thats the main problem in the present I think....

@jaixzz 2 года назад

7:17 "the easiest way to get plastic like this out of the ocean" - food wealth - "is to prevent it from entering in the first place…"

@adventure9119 3 года назад

Thank you for making this video. The oceans are incredibly important to the Earth and people should be aware of how bad it’s getting hit by our waste and negligence.

@Allysoncociuba 3 года назад

If you have Netflix... I really recommend Sea-piracy.

@epikgamer4462 3 года назад

Watching this and talking about it on the internet isn't gonna help anything lol

@esnebta 3 года назад

And by having awareness, we can send out "waves of good vibes" with our "desires" for this to get better!

@kartoffel245 3 года назад

Unpopular possible solution: require food companies to use less plastic in their products, and yes I am talking about you Lays!😤

@anwpecirotan 3 года назад

Majority of Plastic waste is Fishing Nets though

@JoeGrunt9 3 года назад

thats not enough. every corporation should be part of the government. this way we can ensure we do away with plastic.

@Dockhead 3 года назад

@@anwpecirotan they say that, but what is it you find most washed up? surely if fishing nets were so the majority then why is it a minority that is found as waste? bottled plastics and random broken down plastics are mostly what i see along the beaches i live near.

@kyleknepper4016 3 года назад

@@Dockhead did you guys even watch the video? Not all pollution is in the same place. Out at sea you’re gonna have more nets and things trapped by the currents and by the shores your gonna see bottles and such.

@McfcMancs 3 года назад

@@Dockhead go and watch seaspiracy on Netflix if you haven’t already. If you like eating fish, you may change your mind after watching that.

@riscallastephen9934 Год назад

If the petroleum companies weren't so powerful, Hemp Oil would be used to manufacture anything plastic. Hemp oil is organic and breaks down completely in the environment in a very short period of time. But it's not about change because that would mean the petroleum companies would have competition. . . . . . . .

@KyleEvra 2 года назад

Cleaning up part did make me feel a bit better. 😊

@avariceseven9443 3 года назад

This is kind of a good news. If most of them are close to the shore or on the shore, then cleaning them would be a lot easier than when most of them are in the bottom or middle of the ocean. We should act fast than wait for them to get carried further when cleaning becomes more expensive.

@davidschut9905 3 года назад

Spoiler: We will Not clean it.

@MJAY-N7129 3 года назад

Yes, amazing

@Retrenorium 3 года назад

@@davidschut9905 come on! I was excited for the new earth arc!

@VeganSemihCyprus33 3 года назад

This new environmental documentary exposes the secret to all this: the Connections (2021)

@Studio23Media 3 года назад

If most of it is on or near the shore, that should make it easier to clean up. So let's get to it.

@neilquechon8716 3 года назад

Not really sure of that 😕 If it's on the middle of the ocean, sure it's more difficult to go there, but then you can remove tons of plastic in very little time. On the coast, you can't juste throw a net... so you need to pick all the trash by hand... thus needing a lot of people to remove it little by little That said, it's not a reason not to do it

@ManomiiFox 3 года назад

you haven't count the microplastic in everyone's body yet. (scientist found that even the deepest and smallest sea creatures had microplastic in them, and they are at the lowest food chain. let that sink in (pun unintended))

@solomonreal1977 2 года назад

no one has claimed it is mostly on or near the shore, you will close your studio at once

@WinglessPhoenix 2 года назад

@@ManomiiFox This comment just made me go on a 10 minute searching spree about microplastics in my body. Now I have anxiety.

@johnnykgagnon2 2 года назад

Very Informative report here thank you!

@raman1508 2 года назад

Great initiative... Really noble🙏🙏

@Hdidbi_3049 3 года назад

I was cycling home after a long day of work and when I looked into the canal I was cycling past I saw a nest and the baby ducks were sitting on a nest made of sticks, plastic bottles, plastic bags and other things. It was really sad to see.

@Vikasslytherine 3 года назад

It's good they are using it as a building material! As long as it's still got some use, it's not trash.

@Patty-qy8qh 3 года назад

Great, they already start recycling. Best thing about it: this plastic nest will last hundred years.

@Raccon_Detective. 3 года назад

@Akshay 14 We need to do something about this, God can't do all the work.

@blackpanther9504 3 года назад

I remember when I was buying fruits I put them all in plastic bags, but why? Now I just throw it into the cart without any bag. Same with grocery bags, I take my own cotton or however it is written bag. I start to think how much, I as a 1 human being can use/produce plastic and its awfully big amount.

@0xsergy 3 года назад

multiplied by 8 billion

@AK4Uwolfen 3 года назад

Using a cotton bag is worse than using a plastic bag due to all the water and energy used to make one. The best bag none, reusing every bag and not throwing them away.

@cathyrowe594 3 года назад

@@AK4Uwolfen Not if the bags are made out of worn out old jeans, blankets or sheets. Super easy to make them yourself!

@CarrotConsumer 3 года назад

@@AK4Uwolfen Surely you could find bags at a thrift store.

@jb888888888 3 года назад

The best bag is the one you already have, whatever it's made out of.

@RonFella Год назад

This is really good news actually. The plastic is relatively inert. Once on the bottom it is no more harmless than a rock.

@johndehaan2764 2 года назад

Excellent report.

@jimmyliu4614 3 года назад

Thanks for addressing this critical issue. We need to first reduce the amount of plastics in everyday consumption, before reusing and recycling them.

@jeffreyhill1011 3 года назад

Sadly in its current form recycling is a non tenable joke. We were duped by the companies with the recycling push in the 90's into buying more plastic because "it can be recycled" but they never really had systems in place for it. Re-use is by far the best method after and during reduction. Most plastic just isn't recyclable into anything outside of grocery bags. Sorry for the dissertation but this is a subject I have be yelling to my piers and elders about since I was a teen in the late 90's and no one listened.

@tedpower9218 3 года назад

What about fishing equipment?

@kjjosker 3 года назад

The vast majority of ocean plastic pollution is due to third world countries using their rivers as garbage dumps... start there. All of you people that are using reusable straws and bags are doing literally nothing except making yourselves feel morally superior.

@TCB2023. 3 года назад

@@kjjosker it's a start.

@pickles3128 3 года назад

It's really annoying with COVID-19 I am banned from using reusable shopping bags because they might "spread disease" but it's perfectly OK for anyone to bring a my cell phone and purse in the grocery store. My reusable shopping bags might as well be sterilized surgery implements in comparison to the bacteria-ridden surfaces of smart phones or the inside of a purse teeming with bacteria. They're filthier than gas pump handles.

@ethanomcbride 3 года назад

Framing this as a mystery really helped me connect with the video. Good educational storytelling!

@charleslloyd4253 2 года назад

I have a friend that worked on a research ship studying the Pacific garbage. And most of it had Japanese markings. That came after the big tsunami. But some countries still use the oceans as their garbage pits.

@skipparker3182 2 года назад

and what happens to the plastic collected on beaches? how is it processed, and where does it then go?

@tomrogers9467 3 года назад

On my last trip to Cuba, on the Atlantic side, I scooped up a random handful of beach sand at the waterline. It was speckled with tiny plastic particles. Most no larger than the grains of sand they were in. Sickening.

@bc1173 3 года назад

never happened

@tomrogers9467 3 года назад

@@bc1173 0K, Mr.Troll. You should know!

@dontdrinkthewater5097 3 года назад

What beach btw?

@MJAY-N7129 3 года назад

I agree 😔

@thefattesthagrid 3 года назад

Back in the day, when I was chillin' with MJ and the little one from the Beetles, we found a starfish at the shoreline of MJs multimillion dollar mansion. Turns out it was plastic. Sickening.

@Hackasaures 3 года назад

Great video, but you should also make a video or at least a section in this one, about how the corporations who initially produced and introduced these plastics are not taking responsibility for forcing consumers to use it.

@DyslexicMitochondria 3 года назад

Heyy I am making a video about this topic rn haha

@alystdesign 3 года назад

agree

@AVI.D 3 года назад

It's the consumer who buys the product, creates the market and litter. People love to blame the big companies

@Hackasaures 3 года назад

@@AVI.D go to the supermarket and buy 10 items. Tell me you’re not walking home with at least one piece of plastic packaging.

@D-angelin.Moarar 3 года назад

That's capitalism for ya

@lukaswagner6859 2 года назад

My wife and I live on and sometimes in (depending on the tide) the Chesapeake Bay. We will kayak to the multiple sandy beaches and inlets. We find plastic every trip. We can clean a beach go back a week later and it's the same as before. The blame is the modern era which we all live. The solution is complex, but what you can do is simple. Pick it up, dispose of it and repeat. Unfortunately after I bring it to my local transfer station I no longer have control.

@bobpettit6653 2 года назад

Next time I go to the beach I will bring a bag to pick up plastic. Usually I don’t see any though. Thanks for sharing your video.

@alessandromessora5491 3 года назад

I find it interesting that the script never mentions fishing nets specifically, despite the fact that they are one of the most abundant (and dangerous to wildlife) sources of plastic pollution floating around, as you can see in the footage of the Ocean Cleanup shown in the video. Still, very good video!

@hiteshbonde1 3 года назад

okay we know you have watched seaspiracy...

@alessandromessora5491 3 года назад

@@hiteshbonde1 hahaha I have indeed, but I already knew it from speaking to researchers (I'm studying to become a marine biologist at the moment).

@pyRoy6 3 года назад

@@hiteshbonde1 Vox watched Seaspiricy too. Are they ignoring the key points because critics were able to find little details questionable?

@thecommunistdoggo1008 3 года назад

@@pyRoy6 And the NGOs represented but yes blame critics

@ONeill01 3 года назад

@@pyRoy6 Vox literally had a NGO spew misinformation by writing an article on their website in regards to Seaspiracy - more likely pressured as they get paid

@alpaltunkaya9991 3 года назад

I expected to hear something about the fish nets, why is it not even mentioned?

@salted3507 3 года назад

4:00

@renngriffin2401 3 года назад

But not supporting the fishing industry is a huge way to stop plastic from entering the ocean, why wasn’t that talked about?

@alpaltunkaya9991 3 года назад

@@renngriffin2401 exactly what I am wondering.

@harryeichelberger4799 2 года назад

Les Stroud said this years ago... Doesn't matter how remote you are, you will always find plastics and trash along shorelines that can be used for survival.