Comments on: Yarrr, mateys. Set sail for Garbage Island. http://www.nuncscio.com/2007/10/23/yarrr-mateys-set-sail-for-garbage-island/ Politics. Media. Culture. Now you know. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:34:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rondanaro http://www.nuncscio.com/2007/10/23/yarrr-mateys-set-sail-for-garbage-island/comment-page-1/#comment-8938 Rondanaro Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:34:00 +0000 http://nuncscio.com/2007/10/23/yarrr-mateys-set-sail-for-garbage-island/#comment-8938 To think...trillions upon trillions of plastic bottles, shoes, cups, bags, balloons, general trash...and no one is doing anything?! sure it'll cost billions, but I think if EVERYONE chipped in, it'd be cleaned up in no time. Damn litterers... To think…trillions upon trillions of plastic bottles, shoes, cups, bags, balloons, general trash…and no one is doing anything?! sure it’ll cost billions, but I think if EVERYONE chipped in, it’d be cleaned up in no time. Damn litterers…

]]> By: pale http://www.nuncscio.com/2007/10/23/yarrr-mateys-set-sail-for-garbage-island/comment-page-1/#comment-6465 pale Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:20:06 +0000 http://nuncscio.com/2007/10/23/yarrr-mateys-set-sail-for-garbage-island/#comment-6465 Have you ever heard of the great Nike spill? A container of running shoes went overboard. And a container spilled a load of plastic bags into the ocean, just to name a couple things. Don't get me started on the nurdles. Whomever owns the Corporate media really doesn't want us to know about this stuff, so, it pops once in a while, and then quietly disappears. <i>LOOK! Britney shaved her head</i> That kinda thing. Greenpeace has been working at getting this out there. Alternet has articles often. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/61607/" title="The Great Plastic Bag Plague" rel="nofollow"> I wrote about it last May on Kos....Not too many people there seemed aware of it even. <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/18/02947/9362" title="She's dead! Wrapped in Plastic!" rel="nofollow"> Freaky stuff. Have you ever heard of the great Nike spill? A container of running shoes went overboard. And a container spilled a load of plastic bags into the ocean, just to name a couple things.
Don’t get me started on the nurdles.

Whomever owns the Corporate media really doesn’t want us to know about this stuff, so, it pops once in a while, and then quietly disappears. LOOK! Britney shaved her head That kinda thing.
Greenpeace has been working at getting this out there. Alternet has articles often.

I wrote about it last May on Kos….Not too many people there seemed aware of it even.

Freaky stuff.

]]> By: Rob http://www.nuncscio.com/2007/10/23/yarrr-mateys-set-sail-for-garbage-island/comment-page-1/#comment-6464 Rob Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:47:01 +0000 http://nuncscio.com/2007/10/23/yarrr-mateys-set-sail-for-garbage-island/#comment-6464 Strange we wouldn't have heard of this before, but it's in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Gyre" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> Strange we wouldn’t have heard of this before, but it’s in Wikipedia

]]> By: Rob http://www.nuncscio.com/2007/10/23/yarrr-mateys-set-sail-for-garbage-island/comment-page-1/#comment-6463 Rob Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:39:36 +0000 http://nuncscio.com/2007/10/23/yarrr-mateys-set-sail-for-garbage-island/#comment-6463 That is disconcerting to say the least... but reading the article, one thing struck me: <i>a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists.</i> Wouldn't that be visible from space? Why wouldn't we have heard about this sooner..?? That is disconcerting to say the least… but reading the article, one thing struck me: a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that’s twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists.

Wouldn’t that be visible from space? Why wouldn’t we have heard about this sooner..??

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