Comments on: SYNTHETIC SEA: Litter is impacting ocean ecosystems and killing wildlife

By: OHio kathy

OHio kathy — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:00:08 +0000

This is totally unacceptable. People can be such pigs. Actually that’s not true I think Pigs are cleaner. We need to clean this up. Stop spending taxpayer money on stupid worthless things and let’s use the money to clean this up! It will help us all in the long run!!

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By: Buck Denton

Buck Denton — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:26:37 +0000

Hi Brooke. I believe it would be very difficult to clean up the mess. There is just too much of it. Furthermore, I doubt there is the international political will to spend the $$$, but I could be wrong.

I’m here in Michigan, and now that the snow has melted, it is easy to see all the trash thrown out of car windows in the past 4 or 5 months. It’s disgusting. We need to establish a citizen volunteer corps in local communities to clean up this mess and to educate people. I believe that some people just don’t get it and need to be told–others just don’t care. Anyhow, if people would just put their trash in bags and send it off to landfills (and/or recycle what they can)–it would make a huge difference, since a lot of this trash is just washed out to sea.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:14:24 +0000

That is the most disgusting thing I’ve seen/ heard in a long time. How come this isn’t something I’ve heard of before…? Do people just not care? Can’t we just go clean it up? How difficult would that really be????

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