More Videos About the Pacific Garbage Patch

I am posting again about the pacific garbage patch because since my first post I have actually seen some visual evidence of it myself. Our family recently took a vacation to Hawaii. I have been there many times before as a child, but this was my first time as an adult. The beaches were all fine on the two islands we were at, that is, until we took a drive to a fairly deserted residential stretch of beach that it looked like not too many tourists ventured upon. You know how stones get smoothed out by water? Of course, the same thing happens to plastic. This beach was filled with nice little smooth flat stones, but these stones were not made of rock, they were colorful bits of plastic with nicely rounded edges. It was sad and disheartening. I started to try and gather bits to take back with me to a garbage can (and where would that end up going after anyway), but quickly realized the magnitude of the amount of plastic present on this very large beach and how little difference I was making. One of the videos says that the only real way we can make a difference is to reduce consumption. I am willing to give a very genuine effort towards that. Will you join me?


The following video has a lot of the same images as the one I posted in this post, but this one is set to music instead of being a news story, so for me anyway, it gives a little bit more of a haunting, dire feeling. There is also a very horrific image of a dead turtle in this one, that I think is more disgusting, and therefore more motivating (to get rid of plastic) than any other image I have seen so far. Just imagine for a minute what that turtle had to endure before it was finally given the peace of death.





The following video is basically an expansion of the information presented by Good Morning America.