Wednesday, May 19, 2010

A short video of the facts of Plastic in the Ocean

When I talk about plastic trash in the ocean, the most common questions that I receive is "How does it get to the ocean?" I understand that people have a hard time to imagine that 75 to 80 % of plastic trash in the ocean is originated from the land instead of from the ships on the sea.
But when you watch this video, you can see that your everyday plastic trash is floating towards the ocean through the rivers. Los Angeles river that flows into the Long Beach Port is only 51 miles long. However, there are numerous creeks and storm drains are feeding into the river. If you see a plastic cup on the street in front of your house today, the chances of finding the same cup somewhere in the LA river in the future are extremely high.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1LMH7HGvs

3 comments:

Five Towns Air Conditioning & Vent Cleaning said...

Yes the water bodies are all contaminated and from research it has been found out that even fishes have added plastic into their diet.There are larger deaths in the oceans and we must stop the garbage throwing right away.

Dance 4 Oceans said...

You're absolutely right. It's impossible to clean and fix what we have done now. I MUST stop now to worsen the situation.
I saw the storm drainage was filled by the plastic trash after the July 4th celebration yesterday. It hurt so badly....

Dance 4 Oceans said...

You are absolutely right.
It's too late to fix what we have done. We MUST stop worsening the situation.