3 August 2006
Floating Waste Dump
by Slade, onboard the Esperanza
Today I was having afternoon tea in the Lounge, when Captain Frank came in and told us that there was an enormous amount of floating trash going by the ship. We were all very intrigued so we dashed out to the starboard side deck to check it out. The pic attached doesn't really give you a good idea of how much trash there was as it was difficult to capture on film. But I can tell you that we were sailing through huge amounts of garbage.There was everything from packets of noodles, to plastic shopping bags to floating cardboard to floating shrink wrap, and plastic PET bottles, everything! It was really shocking to see all this rubbish in a huge vast ocean. It would be like driving down your street on your way to work and driving over mountains of garbage to get to the end of the street. It was really quite shocking to see.
As we wade our way through this floating waste dump, one of our Web Guru colleagues, Dave, has posted an interesting story on a similar topic. It's a news clip from the Los Angeles Times in relation to trash in our oceans. Check out Dave's posting, Marine Debris The Trash Vortex
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There are no words. Just utter disgust at the people who do it. Yanks alone throw away 250, 000 plastic bottles in the sea EVERY DAY so what hope is there. x
Posted by: Jodie at August 4, 2006 3:54 PM
I guess it just goes with the territory, two of the greatest organizations teaming up again in an act of human Love and sacrifice. In addition to your most excellent The Trash Vortex presentation, ...it just figures Greenpeace and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) would be teaming up again to aid the helpless people in Lebanon. Thanks so much for that information and very excellent article Dave - http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2006/08/rainbow_warrior_to_help_medeci.html#more ...I'll be sure to find a spot for it on my homepage. MSF and Greenpeace, 'Warriors of the Rainbow' This is a testimony of you all that serve Greenpeace...
Posted by: Grateful Child at August 4, 2006 4:47 PM
I have been to many ports throughout South East Asia and have found that most of the ports and their approaches are much the same as what you have seen and described in your last weblog. If anything I have seen in the past Singapore is one of cleaner ports in SE Asia. What is the solution to this problem and how can hundreds of years of habit of throwing everything away be fixed???? The work that you guys are doing is fantastic and must be continued if there is ever going to be a solution to this massive problem.
Posted by: Ryder at August 5, 2006 12:23 PM
greenpeace is absolutely dropping the ball on this. people are interested in this nearly incomprehensible problem, but there is NO good photography of the eastern garbage patch anywhere the web. send a professional photographer out there and raise some awareness. really, really disappointed.
Posted by: james at August 11, 2006 10:34 PM
i would like to know ALOT more about this... i just found out about it.. and i was wondering if you knew where i could find info on where all of the locations of these dumps are?
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