I'm a scuba diver and I physically cannot carry enough garbage (I try anyways) that's hidden under our surface on an excursion. Local lakes, rivers, in the ocean... it's everywhere and it's so sad.
The terrible thing is, until functional process is developed for handling it, collecting it is just moving it from one place to another. My heart brakes for animals. (recycling covers so little, better than nothing but percentages are devastating)
Thank you for trying though. Before this last year I would pick up any trash I walked by. Sometimes walking through a parking lot or park just from walking to and from my car and sometimes I have hand full. Can't imagine trying in the ocean....
I stopped scuba diving due to the deep psychological damage caused by seeing plastic laying around and after seeing animals in distress or chewing plastic stuff
I'm a diver like yourself Zac and find it so disheartening when I see more garbage than marine life. But like yourself I pick that garbage up. Nice to know I'm not the only one.
I pick litter off my local beach almost every day. It's disheartening sometimes, because each year I see more than the last. This video encourage me to keep doing it. I live in North-west Ireland. I will always pick up face-masks, to protect the wildlife.
@Sara Crouch Now it’s sad to hear this that my country ranks as the top 5 in this list but I think that we are trying our best. One of the most smartest thing here is that about 90ish % of all the plastic bottles and metal cans (used for drinks) are recycled. Why? That is because everytime you buy a drink that is in a metal can or in a plastic bottle, depending on the size 10 - 45 cents are added to the original price of the drink. And if u return those bottles to a grocery store, you get those 10 - 45 cents back. That is the reason why so many people return the bottles which are then recycled.
@@ayushonkar850 "HuMaNs ArE tHe WoRsT tHiNg tHaT hAs HapPeNeD tO tHiS pLaNeT" - this is idiotic. Yes we are bad for the planet itself but at the same time you only live once - if u want to actually do some good for it go and pickup litter, in the meantime i will be drunk on a beach eating ice cream. This planet is lucky to have us. We are great!
I’m disappointed that Vox played into the narrative of putting the responsibility on individuals to pick up plastic off the beach. What about the millions of corporations producing plastic ??
@@jimlincoln1283 you have a point, but most plastic debris isn't litter, or something you throw into the ocean. Its large scale dumping by corporations
@@jimlincoln1283 multimillion international corporations in 3rd world countries, not consumers (even though their consumers may produce more litter than others).
I was thinking the same but like said in the video, it's degraded faster by sand abrasion. And I think that 1. There is more marine life in those zones, especially all the coral reefs; 2. It can't be cleaned or picked up easily at all when it's underwater, even shallow waters. A lot of it must be buried too. Sorry, not fun.
I was in the US Coast Guard in the 70's in this area and I remember when we came upon it the first time. It was appalling and about a mile wide. Just tens of thousands of six-pack plastics and garbage. That's in addition to all the oil leaked by freighters whenever they came into LA. The whole ocean had those glimmers of oil patches everywhere. I don't know how the fish are able to breathe.
@@rafangille Regardless, plastic production and consumption has increased massively every year, and into other countries which don't have good pollution regulations. Production of clothing with synthetic fibers like polyester which release micro-plastics into water systems has increased massively in the last 50 years. I bet the level of micro-plastics in drinking water is probably higher than ever. Anecdotally, everytime I go to the lakes and rivers where i live i can pick up a few pocketfuls of plastic litter. I think you're probably right though that we don't have so much oil leaking out of ships and that kind of stuff though nowadays.
It’s so frustrating knowing that local recycling centers only take CERTAIN types of plastic. This country needs to do something beyond ‘picking it up’ and cleaning....
Hemp cellulose plastic is the future, more hemp in all industries would help. Along with cleaning. As for landfills, the future will see plastic eating bacteria and fungus. Just Say No to oil and plastic, and say yes to hemp.
@@StrokeMahEgo Anything is technically recyclable. With enough time and energy anything can be broken down to its constituents, but that's exactly the problem, plastic creates a lot of pollution when it's made, and then a whole lot more when it's 'recycled', it doesn't go into a magic box and come out the the other side a bottle, that takes energy.
@@StrokeMahEgo which goes to show they're more concerned about the money which is not the right kind of attitude for this. Don't worry so much about the money and focus more on improving waste management.
An another important fact is that many people just assume that recycling is a black hole that magically makes plastic disappear. This has caused many of the items thrown into the recycling bin to not actually be recyclable. The less recyclable material, the less profitable recycling centers are, which forces them to close down and prevents new ones from opening up. It should also be noted that recycling was aggressive marketed my corporations, because it allowed to keep producing and selling plastic items while giving the appearance of being green. Remember there's a reason why recycling is the last of the 3 R's.
The fact that recycling centers need to be profitable in a capitalist world is a sign that we need to change the system. Capitalism is unsustainable in nature :/
"Take another look at plastic". If you're old like me, you might remember these words from the 1970s. This AD campaign was used to try to get everyone to accept this great new material. If only we could have seen the future. Now we are certainly injesting it in the seafood we consume. And the story isn't over. More bad news to come...
You hit the nail on the head I've seen a video of looking at canned tuna fish under a microscope, it has microplastic strands in it sadly (it can be assumed that it's plastic that the tuna fish digested)
trees were like this as well in the past... Nothing could really digest the newly developed lignin and they were just piling up for about 140 millions years!!! Over those 140 million years they "sank into the ground" and became oil. Now we use the same oil to create another substance that can't be naturally broken down and the cycle continues :P
I bet "technological age" will be more prominent, just simply due to the societal impact technology has had on the last few decades, and will have in the coming centuries.
Thanks Laura, great video & insight into this issue as always. In fact, our underwater wildlife videographers are experiencing a tremendous increase of the impact on ocean ecosystems stemming from plastic pollution. And it comes down to the unsighted. You mention the most common origins of plastic pollution at around 08:00, yet what almost nobody is aware of, is that our clothes are also full with it and cause a flood of plastic garbage.
really good point. I honestly didn't know about the microplastics in our clothes until kind of recently, which just puts into perspective how destructive/wasteful i was being before i realized that.
The Ocean cleanup is a company that is dedicated to cleaning up trash from the ocean, they have river interceptors that clean up major factors in ocean pollution, and are working on cleaning up that ocean trash dump near CA, they're gaining ground and a sizeable amount of funding including a workforce and several ships. All their designs are fish-friendly and they're going emissions free soon. (Please correct me on any of this if it's wrong but i checked and believe this is all right)
The maker of it want country to buys his invention. In reality that thing doesn’t really solve the root of the problem. Which is people throwing their garbage anywhere. No matter how many times you clean the ocean or rivers with that thing it will remain polluted as long as people are not responsible in their waste management.
Appreciation of their work is not enough. Each one of us has to use at least a tiny bit less of plastics and produce less garbage in general. That includes me and YOU reading this.
While I agree with general video message, I don't think we exclusively should be the ones to clean up this mess. Big corporations that are key drivers of this for years tried to blame it on the little guy. We should hold them accountable for their actions, through taxes and other redeeming incentives.
Huge companies such as those that make bottled water, plastic bags, retail companies should be the ones to clean up their mess. They make profit out of these products. They are responsible.
I carry a trash bag with me anytime I go to the beach or hiking! I recommend everyone do it even if it's small EDIT: I use biodegradable/compostable bags. I didn't know picking up trash was so controversial 😂
Same here, i always have one in my car along with a fresh set of gloves and a grabby stick and also carry a mesh bag when scuba diving since everytime i dive i find at least one product of pollution.
I do the same. Also while fishing. Its RIDICULOUS how much trash I pick up while fishing. I'll completely clean one spot, come back a month later an it's like I never cleaned it at all. I hate people.
The problem is what happens with the bag of trash after you discard it in a bin. Chances are it's being sold to a poor country that then dumps it into the ocean
@@AlecsNeo Totally agree that it isn't the right approach fully as refusal is the first and most critical step. But even if it is slightly delayed or has the possibility to be processed correctly then the effort is worth it. Now for at least the states, there is a pretty solid chance that the trash will be properly handled to a landfill if you process to trash (since we aren't talking about the massive problem with the recycling industry as a whole as well), which of course then you are trading up issues with the ocean for issues with the fresh water and soil areas. If you separate to recycling then it is dependent on a few more factors beyond that. So yeah, it's definitely not the best but really without there being overall less of us or more of us caring about the issues/doing our small part if possible then it will never improve regardless. Plastic should be heavily reduced in its manufacturing for anything real to change in a lifetime (which requires people to not have convience which is the primary reason for nothing to change).
We are destroying the planet just so that a few can become billionaires. We do not recycle, that was/is just another lie from those who profit from it.
And even recycling takes energy to do. In addition most of the plastics people recycle aren't even actually recyclable so they just end up in the landfills or the ocean regardless. People NEED to stop thinking about these materials as "disposable"
Yup. And if garbage bags are used to collect it then more plastic has been added to the existing problem. I think it's still better to collect and sort it than to leave it (at least this provides the option of it being dealt with responsibly), especially if it's in a sensitive area, but it does feel like a losing battle at times. When I do go out and do some cleanup, I usually use reusable buckets to collect so I'm not adding to the problem. Seeing these cleanup operations with piles of hundreds of full garbage bags seems counter-intuitive to me... Why not just rent a couple large garbage bins and then hand out 5-gallon buckets to the volunteers?
The worst thing is when your country has the resources to construct facilities to process plastic wastes, and does not do it, instead just land filling it all~ Recently a garbage dump near my house has caught fire, explaining the smells of burning plastic for the past few days
@@earledward8766 japan uses a lot of plastics, in konbini, cafes, any product has plastics yea we have these recycling things but still its better to reduce than keep using i think
Interestingly enough this actually happened once before. When plants first evolved cellulose and lignin there was nothing that could break it down and so dead plants just kept piling up without decaying. It took around 60 million years for microbes that could break the stuff down arrived and plant finaly started decaying again. Anyway long story short this is where around 90% of coal came from.
The vast majority of ocean plastic pollution is due to third world countries using their rivers as garbage dumps, start there. All of you people that are using reusable straws and bags are doing literally nothing except making yourselves feel morally superior.
@@kjjosker Those people who sort their garbage religiously for recycling are suckers for yet another juicy international racket that sees much of their junk dumped anywhere, indiscriminately.
It's preparation for end of all days. Every living beings except humans wil start to become extinct and the the day of reckoning will happen. It's coming near
People will only care when they are directly affected and when things get really really worse, that's why whenever I see people throw their trash in the sea near my house I get so angry but I know that no matter how much I try to persuade them to avoid doing it they won't listen because they feel that they are being attacked personally, like, what the actual dumbfuckery.
When I was a kid I was collecting glass shards on beach. Since they were smoothed by sand they weren't dangerous for a child to touch but still. I was basically collecting trash
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 same. We called it sea glass. I have at least a bucket full, luckily I haven’t been able to find any more, since the beach near me banned glass bottles and other trash
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495, although, glass is just a rock, so you could make the same trash collecting claim about collecting pebbles you suspect of being formed from bricks etc.
I mean it should be China's responsibility, they pollute more plastics than anyone else. Military budget has nothing to do with the economics of pollution. You pollute less there's less pollution. We just need to make countries responsible for their pollution. And that's asia, asia is the largest plastic pollution contributor with China leading with a large margin. If we can successfully regulate China's plastic pollution we could prevent around 8,000,000 tonnes of plastic entering the waters. Vox is clearly being funded at some level by a Chinese person or else the conclusion to this video would have been we need to regulate asia on being the leaders in plastic pollution
@@zedantXiang yes but Asia accounts for most of the worlds pollution alone even if we went to 0% carbon today we would still need other countries help.
I colletted 15kg of plastic and garbage with my gf on Apr 18th, it was Italy national plastic free day. Let's redo it all together on the international one on July the 3rd and clean it up! :D 10kg from each of us every year and we can defeat this mess
@@idk._.9958 We recycle daily trash in Italy but you can't do it with this 'cause deteriorated materials aren't recycable at all. Or if there's a way, our current system doesn't cover it. So we bring it to the dump. Not ideal, i know, but better then leave it in our forests.
@@lorenzomanini1017 But how did you collect all this stuff?? Like in a truck or something else?? And was it not difficult for 2 people to collect this amount of plastic? (BTW great job)
@@vinitkarankal9481 Ahah no no i said we collected both plastic and other types of garbage 😂 so there was also heavyer stuff than plastic. Aproximately it was a bit less than a cube meter.
@@moller4u they also produce plenty of their own. I'd say the US military budget if reduced by just 2% could help clean up half of their own coasts. similarly if most europeans stopped selling weapons across the globe for a year at least we could manage this crisis.
Plastic is the way to go, but only if humanity can operate this properly. Most of the outcome we observe is the reason of one way policy. Recycling is called such for a reason.
@@sehleh3194 however recycling has proved inefficient and most countries cant keep up with the demand in plastic waste so they used to sell their garbage.
Horrible idea. Littered broken glass lasts forever. As in like thousands of years. I could take you to dozens of places in the desert where careless people have left tons of broken glass. Some of it hasn’t moved in over 30 years, and hasn’t degraded one iota.
@@hassmanSMO Looks for me as one whole another topic of descussion. If one country can afford recycling garbage it's all about structuring the system which will work well every way possible. Only two ingredients needed such as money and desire to be efficient. Easily may be wrong im not any kind of closeby to any of this :)
This is actually semi-positive news. The main problem with the ocean garbage patches is that they are not easy to clean up. The beach cleanup operations are actually a bit easier to do.
Do you actually think we will ever clean any of this? We have way more pressing problems like stopping the dumping of plastic into the ocean and that would be easy to fix compared to combing trough billions and billions of hectares of ocean for micro plastic.
@sen touji I guess dumping was the wrong word. I didn't mean that we should line our shores with police stopping dump trucks. I meant that we should first address how all of this plastic is getting into to the ocean in the first place. And the only real solution to that problem is to reduce the amount of plastic we use.
@@jholotanbest2688 it would obviously be a matter of priority and ease. If there was ever an effort to clean up. We would first clean up what is the easiest to get to. It's much easier/cheaper to get it at the coastline than in the vast ocean. -600,000 km of coastline. -350,000,000 square km of ocean. Which sounds easier to clean to you? Yes, we need to stop excessive use of plastic. But, it doesn't mean we just dismiss the problem of ocean plastic.
The sad thing is.. we won't do anything about it ( at a required scale ) cause we're so focused on the politics and greed and other problems that we'll not realise the damage until it's too late.
the funniest thing to me is that ocean clean up is put in plastic bags. People are so dependent on plastic that they use more plastic to clean up plastic
Not really sure of that 😕 If it's on the middle of the ocean, sure it's more difficult to go there, but then you can remove tons of plastic in very little time. On the coast, you can't juste throw a net... so you need to pick all the trash by hand... thus needing a lot of people to remove it little by little That said, it's not a reason not to do it
you haven't count the microplastic in everyone's body yet. (scientist found that even the deepest and smallest sea creatures had microplastic in them, and they are at the lowest food chain. let that sink in (pun unintended))
before pandemic came, I used to always go to various beaches in my country with my family every school break, and then i went to one beach and i was on my way to the car and saw local people who live and work like opening shops close to the beach are burrying their trash in the beach 😭 they literally dug big holes at the beach and burry the trash, and not just one person who did that but many
This is why this is a never ending problem you will never ever get rid of all the plastic and garbage from our oceans because PEOPLE ARE LITTER BUGS 🐛 and might I add PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING
My friend visited India, Bangalore, considered to be one if the most developed cities in India. He took pictures of people bulldozing(literally using heavy machinery at dump sites located next to rivers) trash into rivers in the middle of the city. If that can't be stopped, banning straws in US is not doing anything.
Thank you for making this video. The oceans are incredibly important to the Earth and people should be aware of how bad it’s getting hit by our waste and negligence.
Sadly in its current form recycling is a non tenable joke. We were duped by the companies with the recycling push in the 90's into buying more plastic because "it can be recycled" but they never really had systems in place for it. Re-use is by far the best method after and during reduction. Most plastic just isn't recyclable into anything outside of grocery bags. Sorry for the dissertation but this is a subject I have be yelling to my piers and elders about since I was a teen in the late 90's and no one listened.
The vast majority of ocean plastic pollution is due to third world countries using their rivers as garbage dumps... start there. All of you people that are using reusable straws and bags are doing literally nothing except making yourselves feel morally superior.
It's really annoying with COVID-19 I am banned from using reusable shopping bags because they might "spread disease" but it's perfectly OK for anyone to bring a my cell phone and purse in the grocery store. My reusable shopping bags might as well be sterilized surgery implements in comparison to the bacteria-ridden surfaces of smart phones or the inside of a purse teeming with bacteria. They're filthier than gas pump handles.
I'm 26 now. When I was a child, I saw tonnes of plastic on the Seashore. It has been a while I went to the beach. I can't Imagine how much more plastic is there now.
Imagine mixing salt and pepper together. Now imagine trying to separate the salt and pepper after they've been mixed together. That's the task we face.
@Jamie B Yea, except it is young people who are gung-ho and deeply invested in this problem where as the older generations caused it and keep denying it. Get off your pedestal grandpa. You're the problem. The overwhelming majority of people under 30 believe in climate change, support policy like the Green New Deal, support holding corporations accountable, and constantly push for solving the plastic problem.
It's not that easy to just "clean it up". No matter how many times we clean up our ocean, our annual emission of plastic into the ocean will negate any efforts we put into "clean up". For now studying how plastic pollution effects our ecosystem and where our plastic pollution ends up at is the best course of action in cleaning up our garbage patch. We need to reduce our trash and reduce use of plastics before we can clean up our ocean. Whatever clean up we commit to, we need to change our economy around plastics.
@@kawaiidoggo I understand that but I don't know how many times I have seen 'studies' being done on this massive floating island of garbage... Instead of studying it, let's clean it up and figure a way to keep it out of the ocean...
@@kawaiidoggo That's b.s. BOTH cleaning the ocean and studying are key, not one or the other. Negligible improvements are still better than 0 improvements
@@FIXTREME yes you are correct. But at the rate of plastic polluting our ocean, it's better to understand all our alternatives. Taking actions creates an effect. In order to clean up the amount of garbage in our ocean, we will have to take a magnitude of energy so great that it can be detrimental to our climate. Studying for right now is best course of action. Why? When we finally understand, how much plastic is impacting our entire ocean, we will understand where we should mitigate plastic dumps. Should it be before we dump into ocean? Probably yes. But if it's in our ocean, at what point is it energy efficient and cost saving to clean up our ocean? These questions are still up to debate. Yeah we are currently taking considerable amount of energy and effort to clean up our ocean. But even we massive organizational effort and governmental support, we aren't really seeing any changes. Studies are best way to see how to deal with this situation. We have too limited understanding of our ocean current and ocean ecology that we can't comprehend how much "clean up" we need. I'm not saying we should halt any effort to clean up our ocean but we shouldn't make it bigger than deal than scientific studies into our ocean ecology. We barely scratch the surface on ocean ecology. We only know on the surface on how plastic affects our ecology. Shouldn't we probably get a bigger picture before we can create problem we didn't intent?
Talking about IT makes more money for this Organization.. We need to have the FACT CHECKERS look into THIS ISSUE.. The Operators of VOX is making a TON of Money off of producing this STUFF.. There a lot of money to be made by telling people what They are doing wrong..
5:25 " may actually be there for decades, if not centuries" Did I get it wrong or he stated some plastic has been there for centuries? Cause that would be wrong, oldest platics are not older than 105 years.
I really didn’t want to be that guy who corrects people, but idk if this is a joke moment or not. They said in the description that it’s twice the size of Texas not Australia.
@@ace_stallion "Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 1,042% larger than Texas." 2 seconds to google :)
This is kind of a good news. If most of them are close to the shore or on the shore, then cleaning them would be a lot easier than when most of them are in the bottom or middle of the ocean. We should act fast than wait for them to get carried further when cleaning becomes more expensive.
I was cycling home after a long day of work and when I looked into the canal I was cycling past I saw a nest and the baby ducks were sitting on a nest made of sticks, plastic bottles, plastic bags and other things. It was really sad to see.
I don’t live by an ocean but anytime I’m visiting one, my mom and I always pick up trash which I’ve noticed usually gets people near us to pick up trash too! So sad to think what we’ve done to ourselves 😕
@@anwpecirotan they say that, but what is it you find most washed up? surely if fishing nets were so the majority then why is it a minority that is found as waste? bottled plastics and random broken down plastics are mostly what i see along the beaches i live near.
@@Dockhead did you guys even watch the video? Not all pollution is in the same place. Out at sea you’re gonna have more nets and things trapped by the currents and by the shores your gonna see bottles and such.
I came here from the video of ocean cleanup interceptor cleaning the river after the storm before all the trash gets to the ocean. Wouldn't doing that take the trash away before it can spread to the beaches or sink to the bottom, as it's still fresh?
I find it interesting that the script never mentions fishing nets specifically, despite the fact that they are one of the most abundant (and dangerous to wildlife) sources of plastic pollution floating around, as you can see in the footage of the Ocean Cleanup shown in the video. Still, very good video!
@@pyRoy6 Vox literally had a NGO spew misinformation by writing an article on their website in regards to Seaspiracy - more likely pressured as they get paid
Great video, but you should also make a video or at least a section in this one, about how the corporations who initially produced and introduced these plastics are not taking responsibility for forcing consumers to use it.
On my last trip to Cuba, on the Atlantic side, I scooped up a random handful of beach sand at the waterline. It was speckled with tiny plastic particles. Most no larger than the grains of sand they were in. Sickening.
Back in the day, when I was chillin' with MJ and the little one from the Beetles, we found a starfish at the shoreline of MJs multimillion dollar mansion. Turns out it was plastic. Sickening.
PollyFill from Clothing, Toys, Pillows, and Blankets is everywhere. It’s in our soil water and intertwined with our tree root systems. Please try to buy natural fibers
"These either come from synthetic clothing fibres or they are the results of other plastics breaking down". What you don't say is that MOST of it(>40% of all microplastic) comes from wheels from cars and asphalt. Challenging the destructive car culture of our society is apparently too daring for Vox. In the end we must ask ourselves of the pure laziness in driving every distance thats longer than our cars and building our cities in a way that makes cars difficult to reduce is worth poisining our whole ecosystem.
I remember when I was buying fruits I put them all in plastic bags, but why? Now I just throw it into the cart without any bag. Same with grocery bags, I take my own cotton or however it is written bag. I start to think how much, I as a 1 human being can use/produce plastic and its awfully big amount.
Using a cotton bag is worse than using a plastic bag due to all the water and energy used to make one. The best bag none, reusing every bag and not throwing them away.
I just hope these people engaged in ocean cleaning are being paid fairly if not well. They are doing an amazing work for our generation and to support their work, governments should charge the corporates whose key activities revolve around plastic products
what about having a control on population? these big companies exists because of big population. high demand = high supply. population is the issue not the big companies. if u close apple today. another brand name zuchinni will come tomorrow. because huge demand from billions of people
@@MS-cl7jz it would be nice if all or any government cared enough to keep these large companies in check though , our obligation for convenience is human nature, which is a great reason why we have a body of people that is supposed to represent the best in us to make sure these companies want nothing but to provide the best For us. the sad reality is the body’s of government that are supposed to protect our best interest as humans have decided to protect the best interest of the companies who thrive and prey on every negative human trait we display, doing nothing less but encouraging the negative behavior on both ends. at this point we are pavlovs dogs, conditioned for the response they demand from us
@@Mizaeducation about 9% actually gets recycled, the rest goes to landfills. Also collecting beach plastics into plastic bags has a strong taste of irony to me.
Not really since the video completely neglected that the main source for plastic in the ocean is from ocean going vessels and fishery. In the Norwegian part, of the cleanup referred in the video, it counted for close to 60% of the total. Also the that part embeded in sediments on the ocean floor will not enter into any cycle we care about for a very, very long time.
@@bknesheim The same people that are fomenting racial strife and the same people that are telling you to trust their health criteria are the same ones perpetuating this lie to cause fear, and fear divides people. Consider the facts. Published in the, "Journal of Hazardous Materials", plastic polymers exposed to sunlight while immersed in ocean water for two months degraded and dissolved at a higher rate than anyone thought possible; at 2.7 years, half of the plastics were dissolved. Furthermore, most of the plastic garbage comes from China, accounting for about 8.8 million tons per year, as compared with the U.S. at only 0.3 million tons. ~ quotes: "Ocean Plastics", "Liberty Nation", Nov. 14, 2019.
As I go through life and see how easily we do the harmful things we do to our planet, the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2 ring truer and truer, "it's in your nature to destroy yourselves. "
Evolution has not prepared us for a scenario where we must hold back or face destruction. The key to survival has always been pedal to the metal. So it's not strange that it is very hard for us to consume less than what is within our power. Like Arnold I don't judge us too harshly.
Imagine thinking its harmful for this planet plastic is absolutely nothing for this planet it will decompose in 20-500 years and thats a blink of an eye for earth which has been spinning for billions of years same with life its absolutely nothing life on earth have survived super volcanos ice ages extreme meteorites and other catastrophes. Ok that out of the way if someone wants to really help with plastic they shouldn't even think about getting it out of water rather restricting use of plastic with longest decompose lifetimes and restricting countries who do it most for example : China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam dump more plastic into ocean than all other countries combined(info from wikipedia).
There are not really that many " We" it's them that are causing the problems. They want to produce with no regard to the planet and then turn around and tell us they want to now save us, your practices got us to this point and now you care?.
I hate how people found out there were microscopic animals and jellyfish in there and then complained about him doing it. I mean getting rid of it I think saves more animals than it kills
Such an inspiring message and an excellent video. Such a pity that videos like this tend to focus on the (rather distracting) issues of recycling and individual cleanup over collective action and lobying government for better regulation. The most emblematic failure of modern environmentalists is the myth of individual action in recycling
So true ! Our life span in the greater time frame in just a minute fraction of time that the earth has been able to balance through natural occurrences . Plastic introduction is not one of them or 55 gallon drums or DDT . If we don't come up with a collaborative effort World wide to clean up the shores and tackle reclamation projects . The problem will continue and we will see contamination levels of plastic up the food chain .
That's what us muslims think! We are travellers on this planet, we came from God and will return to him. Thats why Muslim countries aren't that advanced in tech era. Unfortunately in today's world Islam is represented Al Qaida or Taliban
A big German Survival UA-camr Fritz Meineke made a series "7vsWild" were he and other survivalist were send for 7 days to a spot with a limited number of material. In the seacond season they went to Isla San Jose in Panama. The Island is not inhabitated but there is one resort. They had spots on beaches around the whole coast. Those beaches were so full of plastic that they literally had enough building materials that it was way easier than the first season.
FYI: The great pacific garbage patch is almost 50% fishing nets. Fishing industry is THE biggest threat to the oceans! Go watch Seaspiracy on Netflix if you haven't already. Eye-opening!
@@Arthur.Morgan.0 watch a debunking of the debunkings to see that the fishing industry is trying to hide information so that people keep consuming products that destroy our oceans
If you want to know more about plastic in the ocean and beachcombers, who treasure hunt and clean the beaches, I recommend watching the documentary Walk the Tideline by Anna Antsalo ☺️🌊
When ships crashed on the shore they used the metal to make their tools so we kinda sent them into a bronze age, i imagine that they would also find uses for plastic as well
@@TCB2023. your clearly not uncontacted so be quiet also I imagine the uncontacted tribes actually do want trash so they can make tools that would have been impossible otherwise. Also Just to clarify I’m not saying that it’s good that trash washes up everywhere I’m only talking about Uncontacted tribes.
Sometimes I am truly ashamed to be human because of things like this. I also heard that there is plastic at the bottom of Mariana Trench and I would not be surprised if that is the truth.
Sealed can of Spam, beer bottles, plastic bags, 7/3/19, Google. In Mariana Trench, “higher levels of pollution in certain regions than some of the most polluted rivers in China”.
Cool to hear that beach clean ups matter. But we don't have good recycle (here in the US) so when you recycle the stuff you've cleaned up, it just ends up back in the heap! Thought provoking stuff.
Uhhh no. When you recycle things it gets...well recycled. And goes back into other things. You think they just get recyclables and just throw them back into the ocean and trash heaps 🤣
@@purpledragon2504 actually this is wrong. Most recycled things don't actually get recycled. They usually get thrown in landfills as only very specific products can be recycled. So even if you recycle items the chance of them actually being recycled is very low.
@@purpledragon2504 "You think they just get recyclables and just throw them back into the ocean and trash heaps 🤣" Yes. This absolutely DOES happen, all the time. The problem with recycling is that it's often not as profitable as just buying new plastics, so there's no market for recycled products in a capitalist system oftentimes. As a result, a lot of collected recyclables ends up in landfill.
@@robokill387 read my reply to the previous comment please. I said that because the comment stated, that when you recycle stuff it ends up back in the heap, which is true but only partially as not all recyclables get thrown in the heap
Erica i think if you replace with your conditioner and shampoo bottles , your oils . lipstick wrapper, mascara , hair dye and even suscreen . tampons and everything else that require plastic in your bathroom you'll find that you are massive polluter
This is actually pretty hopeful when you think about it, it means that just by cleaning up those areas near the shoreline we can do a lot to help prevent plastic from entering the ocean where it'll do the most damage. That's definitely something that more people should know because if it becomes one of those facts that everyone knows so that everyone will pick up trash when they're at the beach it'll probably do a lot.
I recommend you go online to the Save Our Shores website. They're an organization that organizes coastal cleanups on regular bases and they provide resources to people looking to clean up beaches
But then where does the waste go from the pu? I assume the same place it went to before it ended up in the ocean. So basically they are piling those bags of garbage up to just be thrown right back into the ocean. Picking up the beach is not the solution, it's an endless cycle. Consumption, production and advertising has to change.
@@kristina3901 if you look up how Singapore deals with their garbage, they have a fantastic system that not only cleans the area of trash but cleans the local air. It reduces Singapore's actual waste footprint to less than 10% of what it would be if they treated their waste the way other countries do, and it needs to be made into a model. For now, removing ocean plastic is still super important
@@MathasiaJ singapore is the size of a medium to large sized city in america, it's hard to implement one of the worlds smallest countries policies into a larger country, not to mention singapore doesn't even have cars except for the super rich.
Imagine throwing away trash and someone picks it up and recycles it and 2 months later you buy candy and the wrapper is made from the recycled plastic lol
Plastic bag, first made in the factory Then, some person uses it for some items Say, kEtchup bottle- Then they just throw it away It gets dumped to the ocean It stays there for years It gets brought back decades later and brought to a recycling center That candy wrapper? Held a ketchup bottle in 1983
I remember sometimes camping at this place we called Garbage Beach in Hawai'i. The garbage was more sun bleached and rubbed down like sea glass, and rather pretty in terms of plastic trash. You could see that so much of had come from Asia based on writing on some objects. As well, some you could see was from the 90s or 80s. Craziness...
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It's honestly concerning how little is being done about plastic pollution.
@@emerickdeneb9621 may i know the name of the documentary?
well.. duh?
It’s sad tbh
@zouooks the name is seaspiracy
@@zerno7610 I think he's talking about seaspiracy, great documentary btw, I really recommend it
I'm a scuba diver and I physically cannot carry enough garbage (I try anyways) that's hidden under our surface on an excursion. Local lakes, rivers, in the ocean... it's everywhere and it's so sad.
The terrible thing is, until functional process is developed for handling it, collecting it is just moving it from one place to another. My heart brakes for animals. (recycling covers so little, better than nothing but percentages are devastating)
Thank you for trying though. Before this last year I would pick up any trash I walked by. Sometimes walking through a parking lot or park just from walking to and from my car and sometimes I have hand full. Can't imagine trying in the ocean....
I stopped scuba diving due to the deep psychological damage caused by seeing plastic laying around and after seeing animals in distress or chewing plastic stuff
thank you for your efforts!
I'm a diver like yourself Zac and find it so disheartening when I see more garbage than marine life. But like yourself I pick that garbage up. Nice to know I'm not the only one.
So we hadn't explored all of the oceans, but our plastics had reached everywhere. Genius 101.
yup
add cameras or trackers on random plastics and see where it goes to find where other plastic usually stays and collect them
Mashallah ! Ibra that's a good one. sad but true
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I pick litter off my local beach almost every day. It's disheartening sometimes, because each year I see more than the last. This video encourage me to keep doing it. I live in North-west Ireland. I will always pick up face-masks, to protect the wildlife.
This is very admirable! Thank you so much for helping the environment 💕
Respect To You👍👏
Cool. Want a cookie?
@@astronova6150 yea, i think they'd appreciate a cookie
G-d bless you dude
Governments around the world - "Wow yeah plastic seems like an issue... somebody should probably do something"
@@thisnametooktolong meh, probably (almost) every country
The government is a scam, free the individuals and stop stealing their time and money with taxes and as individuals we will work it out.
Asia produces the waste ONLY because of the demand from rich countries.
@@thisnametooktolong nope... look at the brand... and the design ... even them can know it... its not just from asia ... haha
@Sara Crouch Now it’s sad to hear this that my country ranks as the top 5 in this list but I think that we are trying our best. One of the most smartest thing here is that about 90ish % of all the plastic bottles and metal cans (used for drinks) are recycled. Why? That is because everytime you buy a drink that is in a metal can or in a plastic bottle, depending on the size 10 - 45 cents are added to the original price of the drink. And if u return those bottles to a grocery store, you get those 10 - 45 cents back. That is the reason why so many people return the bottles which are then recycled.
It’s not that surprising how fast we can produce plastic, but at the same time, how it takes millennia to find those which we lose.
Humans are the worst thing that has happened to this planet
@@ayushonkar850 earth done goofed lol
Its sad really
@@ayushonkar850 "HuMaNs ArE tHe WoRsT tHiNg tHaT hAs HapPeNeD tO tHiS pLaNeT" - this is idiotic.
Yes we are bad for the planet itself but at the same time you only live once - if u want to actually do some good for it go and pickup litter, in the meantime i will be drunk on a beach eating ice cream. This planet is lucky to have us. We are great!
@@Mrkyrwy But nature isn't lucky for because of how many ecosystems we have destroyed
I’m disappointed that Vox played into the narrative of putting the responsibility on individuals to pick up plastic off the beach. What about the millions of corporations producing plastic ??
what about the millions of people, mainly countries in Asia with the mindset of "oh just throw it in the water and it will just be washed away"
YOU are the person who buys the product YOU are responsible to dispose of it not the company.
@@jimlincoln1283 you have a point, but most plastic debris isn't litter, or something you throw into the ocean. Its large scale dumping by corporations
@@rxhenne No it is not from corporations. It is from third-world nations.
@@jimlincoln1283 multimillion international corporations in 3rd world countries, not consumers (even though their consumers may produce more litter than others).
In a twisted way, Im actually relieved most of the plastic in the ocean stays near coastlines, meaning it can be cleaned or easily found
I was thinking the same but like said in the video, it's degraded faster by sand abrasion.
And I think that 1. There is more marine life in those zones, especially all the coral reefs; 2. It can't be cleaned or picked up easily at all when it's underwater, even shallow waters. A lot of it must be buried too.
Sorry, not fun.
Most life lives along the coastline.
NOPE, IT IS AT BOTTOM of ALL WATERWAYS !
@@samreynolds3789 ah, an intellectual
The problem is that it partly becomes granular. When you take a sample of sand on a beach, you'll see that quite some sand grains are made of plastic.
I was in the US Coast Guard in the 70's in this area and I remember when we came upon it the first time. It was appalling and about a mile wide. Just tens of thousands of six-pack plastics and garbage. That's in addition to all the oil leaked by freighters whenever they came into LA. The whole ocean had those glimmers of oil patches everywhere. I don't know how the fish are able to breathe.
if that was in the 70s I don't think I want to know how bad it is now.
@@malcolmotoole it’s probably not as bad actually, i think there’s more environmental laws now
@@rafangille Regardless, plastic production and consumption has increased massively every year, and into other countries which don't have good pollution regulations. Production of clothing with synthetic fibers like polyester which release micro-plastics into water systems has increased massively in the last 50 years. I bet the level of micro-plastics in drinking water is probably higher than ever.
Anecdotally, everytime I go to the lakes and rivers where i live i can pick up a few pocketfuls of plastic litter.
I think you're probably right though that we don't have so much oil leaking out of ships and that kind of stuff though nowadays.
All we have done for YEARS is study the problem, all that money could've been for clean up.
@@oeautobody3586 yep..then an 18 yr old kid came along with his ocean cleaning robot..
Kinda scary to think how much plastic we produce while taking barely any action.
This issue is becoming a task for future generations sadly.
And that is why the problem persists.. It is a task for our current generation, NOT for future generations.
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@@callistoarmy5576 no
We should be charging the corporations that produce all of this waste a fee to clean up this mess.
An impossible task..
It’s so frustrating knowing that local recycling centers only take CERTAIN types of plastic. This country needs to do something beyond ‘picking it up’ and cleaning....
Hemp cellulose plastic is the future, more hemp in all industries would help. Along with cleaning. As for landfills, the future will see plastic eating bacteria and fungus. Just Say No to oil and plastic, and say yes to hemp.
Especially since every plastic is technically recyclable. It's just not always profitable to do, which is why they don't bother.
@@StrokeMahEgo Anything is technically recyclable. With enough time and energy anything can be broken down to its constituents, but that's exactly the problem, plastic creates a lot of pollution when it's made, and then a whole lot more when it's 'recycled', it doesn't go into a magic box and come out the the other side a bottle, that takes energy.
@@StrokeMahEgo which goes to show they're more concerned about the money which is not the right kind of attitude for this. Don't worry so much about the money and focus more on improving waste management.
@@jakep9643 There's tens of thousands of different "plastics", I doubt there will ever be a bacteria capable of eating plastic im general.
An another important fact is that many people just assume that recycling is a black hole that magically makes plastic disappear. This has caused many of the items thrown into the recycling bin to not actually be recyclable. The less recyclable material, the less profitable recycling centers are, which forces them to close down and prevents new ones from opening up.
It should also be noted that recycling was aggressive marketed my corporations, because it allowed to keep producing and selling plastic items while giving the appearance of being green. Remember there's a reason why recycling is the last of the 3 R's.
reading, writing, recycling?
Racketeering, Robbing, Recycling?
Repair, Reuse and Recycle. You have the point.
The fact that recycling centers need to be profitable in a capitalist world is a sign that we need to change the system. Capitalism is unsustainable in nature :/
@@marsovac yeah. Govenrment should sponsor recycling. And incentivise companies to produce less plastic or use recycled materials in first place.
"Take another look at plastic".
If you're old like me, you might remember these words from the 1970s. This AD campaign was used to try to get everyone to accept this great new material. If only we could have seen the future.
Now we are certainly injesting it in the seafood we consume.
And the story isn't over. More bad news to come...
You hit the nail on the head
I've seen a video of looking at canned tuna fish under a microscope, it has microplastic strands in it sadly (it can be assumed that it's plastic that the tuna fish digested)
Like nuclear waste or oil spills.
Bible was right.
Exxon knew
trees were like this as well in the past... Nothing could really digest the newly developed lignin and they were just piling up for about 140 millions years!!! Over those 140 million years they "sank into the ground" and became oil. Now we use the same oil to create another substance that can't be naturally broken down and the cycle continues :P
Just like the 'Stone Age' or the 'Iron Age', in the future, our era will be referred to as the 'Plastic Age'.
I bet "technological age" will be more prominent, just simply due to the societal impact technology has had on the last few decades, and will have in the coming centuries.
Cillicone era ?
"the Petroleum Age"
pretty optimistic to think there is going to be an era after this
Nah, plastic age was a bit earlier, we live in the glass age.
Thanks Laura, great video & insight into this issue as always. In fact, our underwater wildlife videographers are experiencing a tremendous increase of the impact on ocean ecosystems stemming from plastic pollution. And it comes down to the unsighted. You mention the most common origins of plastic pollution at around 08:00, yet what almost nobody is aware of, is that our clothes are also full with it and cause a flood of plastic garbage.
really good point. I honestly didn't know about the microplastics in our clothes until kind of recently, which just puts into perspective how destructive/wasteful i was being before i realized that.
Hallo
But this is not enough, you should check "seaspiracy" and spread the real message
@@dontcheckmychannel-NJ17 ur name tho
@@saulgonzalez6427 do you love eggs
The Ocean cleanup is a company that is dedicated to cleaning up trash from the ocean, they have river interceptors that clean up major factors in ocean pollution, and are working on cleaning up that ocean trash dump near CA, they're gaining ground and a sizeable amount of funding including a workforce and several ships.
All their designs are fish-friendly and they're going emissions free soon.
(Please correct me on any of this if it's wrong but i checked and believe this is all right)
its a scam...tax payers
@@hatespeach1984 its...not?
@@hatespeach1984 It's not even close..
@@hatespeach1984 not even close to government
The maker of it want country to buys his invention. In reality that thing doesn’t really solve the root of the problem. Which is people throwing their garbage anywhere. No matter how many times you clean the ocean or rivers with that thing it will remain polluted as long as people are not responsible in their waste management.
Let's appreciate the work those researchers and volunteers are doing!
Appreciation of their work is not enough. Each one of us has to use at least a tiny bit less of plastics and produce less garbage in general. That includes me and YOU reading this.
@Joe Blow why
@Joe Blow fair enough
@Joe Blow ily
@Joe Blow i don't get the joke
While I agree with general video message, I don't think we exclusively should be the ones to clean up this mess. Big corporations that are key drivers of this for years tried to blame it on the little guy. We should hold them accountable for their actions, through taxes and other redeeming incentives.
I wish they included this in the video
And what are big corporations made of? That's right, people.
@@legrandliseurtri7495 and?
Huge companies such as those that make bottled water, plastic bags, retail companies should be the ones to clean up their mess. They make profit out of these products. They are responsible.
Big corporations make these products because the little guy buys them. So the blame is on everyone and the responsibility to clean is on everyone too
I carry a trash bag with me anytime I go to the beach or hiking! I recommend everyone do it even if it's small
EDIT: I use biodegradable/compostable bags. I didn't know picking up trash was so controversial 😂
Same here, i always have one in my car along with a fresh set of gloves and a grabby stick and also carry a mesh bag when scuba diving since everytime i dive i find at least one product of pollution.
I do the same. Also while fishing. Its RIDICULOUS how much trash I pick up while fishing. I'll completely clean one spot, come back a month later an it's like I never cleaned it at all. I hate people.
@@roninmbattousai yes! That's awesome!
The problem is what happens with the bag of trash after you discard it in a bin.
Chances are it's being sold to a poor country that then dumps it into the ocean
@@AlecsNeo Totally agree that it isn't the right approach fully as refusal is the first and most critical step. But even if it is slightly delayed or has the possibility to be processed correctly then the effort is worth it. Now for at least the states, there is a pretty solid chance that the trash will be properly handled to a landfill if you process to trash (since we aren't talking about the massive problem with the recycling industry as a whole as well), which of course then you are trading up issues with the ocean for issues with the fresh water and soil areas. If you separate to recycling then it is dependent on a few more factors beyond that. So yeah, it's definitely not the best but really without there being overall less of us or more of us caring about the issues/doing our small part if possible then it will never improve regardless. Plastic should be heavily reduced in its manufacturing for anything real to change in a lifetime (which requires people to not have convience which is the primary reason for nothing to change).
Sad thing is when we pick it up and throw it away, unless it is sent to a recycling facility, it just ends up somewhere else where it doesn't belong.
Even recycling facilities just usually landfill your stuff lol
We are destroying the planet just so that a few can become billionaires. We do not recycle, that was/is just another lie from those who profit from it.
And even recycling takes energy to do. In addition most of the plastics people recycle aren't even actually recyclable so they just end up in the landfills or the ocean regardless. People NEED to stop thinking about these materials as "disposable"
Yup. And if garbage bags are used to collect it then more plastic has been added to the existing problem. I think it's still better to collect and sort it than to leave it (at least this provides the option of it being dealt with responsibly), especially if it's in a sensitive area, but it does feel like a losing battle at times. When I do go out and do some cleanup, I usually use reusable buckets to collect so I'm not adding to the problem. Seeing these cleanup operations with piles of hundreds of full garbage bags seems counter-intuitive to me... Why not just rent a couple large garbage bins and then hand out 5-gallon buckets to the volunteers?
The worst thing is when your country has the resources to construct facilities to process plastic wastes, and does not do it, instead just land filling it all~
Recently a garbage dump near my house has caught fire, explaining the smells of burning plastic for the past few days
Is this in Japan?
@@earledward8766 japan uses a lot of plastics, in konbini, cafes, any product has plastics
yea we have these recycling things but still its better to reduce than keep using i think
@@水木キリエ is your profile pic the default pic from Google?
@@fahimp3 No, he lives in Malaysia.
@@fahimp3 Probably. Japan is the #1 exporter of plastic waste in the world, and has been for a while.
Gift from us to next generations. The full time job of our kids cleaning up our mess.
Interestingly enough this actually happened once before. When plants first evolved cellulose and lignin there was nothing that could break it down and so dead plants just kept piling up without decaying. It took around 60 million years for microbes that could break the stuff down arrived and plant finaly started decaying again. Anyway long story short this is where around 90% of coal came from.
Don't have kids then
@@franklee8478 he means future generations you dimwitted pinecone
@@akshatshah3717I know, I'm not talking about him. People in general should not have kids.
@@franklee8478 ok
So scary and so sad.
Most of the world is either ignorant, doesn’t care, or simply doesn’t realise the impact is so big.
The vast majority of ocean plastic pollution is due to third world countries using their rivers as garbage dumps, start there. All of you people that are using reusable straws and bags are doing literally nothing except making yourselves feel morally superior.
@@kjjosker Those people who sort their garbage religiously for recycling are suckers for yet another juicy international racket that sees much of their junk dumped anywhere, indiscriminately.
Yeah, they don’t care sadly
It's preparation for end of all days. Every living beings except humans wil start to become extinct and the the day of reckoning will happen. It's coming near
People will only care when they are directly affected and when things get really really worse, that's why whenever I see people throw their trash in the sea near my house I get so angry but I know that no matter how much I try to persuade them to avoid doing it they won't listen because they feel that they are being attacked personally, like, what the actual dumbfuckery.
the whole world: we use square kilometers
americans: ok so this place is twice the size of texas
I know right, everyone knows the best way to measure size is with football fields and height with Empire State Buildings, Texas's is just weird.
@@rmac3217 yeeah & weight is done in elephants & bananas!
1900: picking up shells from the beaches
2010: picking up trash from the beaches
Edit: *Plastic trash
even before during the 20th and 19th Century, plastic pollution in ocean already exist, that's all started during Industrial Revolution
When I was a kid I was collecting glass shards on beach. Since they were smoothed by sand they weren't dangerous for a child to touch but still. I was basically collecting trash
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 same. We called it sea glass. I have at least a bucket full, luckily I haven’t been able to find any more, since the beach near me banned glass bottles and other trash
@@angelikaskoroszyn8495, although, glass is just a rock, so you could make the same trash collecting claim about collecting pebbles you suspect of being formed from bricks etc.
I guess they pick up my dancing skills
Big corporations need to foot the bill for the clean-up - it is their mess after all.
Vuyo, and the entire military complex of america. that alone has the GPD of canada.
I mean it should be China's responsibility, they pollute more plastics than anyone else.
Military budget has nothing to do with the economics of pollution. You pollute less there's less pollution. We just need to make countries responsible for their pollution.
And that's asia, asia is the largest plastic pollution contributor with China leading with a large margin. If we can successfully regulate China's plastic pollution we could prevent around 8,000,000 tonnes of plastic entering the waters.
Vox is clearly being funded at some level by a Chinese person or else the conclusion to this video would have been we need to regulate asia on being the leaders in plastic pollution
NO SHUT UP.
Its OUR problem, america can be great again if you guys stop blaming others
@@zedantXiang yes but Asia accounts for most of the worlds pollution alone even if we went to 0% carbon today we would still need other countries help.
Coke forces you to drink their product and then throw the empty bottle off a pier? Okay.
"The actions of what we do may not affect us now. But it will affect us later."
Exactly
maybe
The "First Nations" people of the USA tried to teach respect for seven generations. Shameful that so many people ignored that wisdom.
Wow, very groundbreaking stuff
"A circle has no corners"
Great study. Everyone needs to speak out against single use containers.
I colletted 15kg of plastic and garbage with my gf on Apr 18th, it was Italy national plastic free day. Let's redo it all together on the international one on July the 3rd and clean it up! :D 10kg from each of us every year and we can defeat this mess
What did you do with it tho? A recycle center?
@@idk._.9958 We recycle daily trash in Italy but you can't do it with this 'cause deteriorated materials aren't recycable at all. Or if there's a way, our current system doesn't cover it. So we bring it to the dump. Not ideal, i know, but better then leave it in our forests.
@@lorenzomanini1017 But how did you collect all this stuff?? Like in a truck or something else?? And was it not difficult for 2 people to collect this amount of plastic? (BTW great job)
Grazie mille 🙏
@@vinitkarankal9481 Ahah no no i said we collected both plastic and other types of garbage 😂 so there was also heavyer stuff than plastic. Aproximately it was a bit less than a cube meter.
A shout out to the Dutch, who are specialists in cleaning Oceans! We need more of them!
We don’t need more of them , we should be like them
We don’t need more of them , we should be like them and learn from them
Exactly!
@@moller4u they also produce plenty of their own. I'd say the US military budget if reduced by just 2% could help clean up half of their own coasts.
similarly if most europeans stopped selling weapons across the globe for a year at least we could manage this crisis.
No theyre not 😂
There are companies that are cleaning it up, but what we really need to do is go back to using glass in what we can.
Plastic is the way to go, but only if humanity can operate this properly. Most of the outcome we observe is the reason of one way policy. Recycling is called such for a reason.
Unfortunately glass takes more energy to make.
@@sehleh3194 however recycling has proved inefficient and most countries cant keep up with the demand in plastic waste so they used to sell their garbage.
Horrible idea. Littered broken glass lasts forever. As in like thousands of years. I could take you to dozens of places in the desert where careless people have left tons of broken glass. Some of it hasn’t moved in over 30 years, and hasn’t degraded one iota.
@@hassmanSMO Looks for me as one whole another topic of descussion. If one country can afford recycling garbage it's all about structuring the system which will work well every way possible. Only two ingredients needed such as money and desire to be efficient. Easily may be wrong im not any kind of closeby to any of this :)
We definitely need some initiatives from individuals AS WELL AS corporations and governments to really address this issue in a sustainable way!
Yeah go after China 🇨🇳
This is actually semi-positive news. The main problem with the ocean garbage patches is that they are not easy to clean up. The beach cleanup operations are actually a bit easier to do.
@A B how so?
Do you actually think we will ever clean any of this? We have way more pressing problems like stopping the dumping of plastic into the ocean and that would be easy to fix compared to combing trough billions and billions of hectares of ocean for micro plastic.
@@jholotanbest2688 best way to start is to pick up litter you see on the street
@sen touji I guess dumping was the wrong word. I didn't mean that we should line our shores with police stopping dump trucks. I meant that we should first address how all of this plastic is getting into to the ocean in the first place. And the only real solution to that problem is to reduce the amount of plastic we use.
@@jholotanbest2688 it would obviously be a matter of priority and ease. If there was ever an effort to clean up. We would first clean up what is the easiest to get to. It's much easier/cheaper to get it at the coastline than in the vast ocean.
-600,000 km of coastline.
-350,000,000 square km of ocean. Which sounds easier to clean to you?
Yes, we need to stop excessive use of plastic. But, it doesn't mean we just dismiss the problem of ocean plastic.
imagine the amount of masks in the ocean…
Right!
And every one of them not a N95 was completely worthless in stopping Covid-84.
@@drawingdead9025 covid-84,!?!?!?!?!?!!!!
I went to Sarasota last week and their were cloth masks already in the water
@@drawingdead9025 In what way do they hit close to home for the democrats? I don't believe they incited an insurrection against democracy.
The sad thing is.. we won't do anything about it ( at a required scale ) cause we're so focused on the politics and greed and other problems that we'll not realise the damage until it's too late.
just like climate change it'll be too little too late.
Yes we live in a capitalist society this is nothing new
@@thatlawnmowerguy9 @0xsergy true
@@0xsergy yup
Capitalism bad, me no like society.
And I can't say I disagree.
the funniest thing to me is that ocean clean up is put in plastic bags. People are so dependent on plastic that they use more plastic to clean up plastic
there is nothing better then plastic for bags tho! and they use biodegradeable bags!
If most of it is on or near the shore, that should make it easier to clean up. So let's get to it.
Not really sure of that 😕 If it's on the middle of the ocean, sure it's more difficult to go there, but then you can remove tons of plastic in very little time. On the coast, you can't juste throw a net... so you need to pick all the trash by hand... thus needing a lot of people to remove it little by little
That said, it's not a reason not to do it
you haven't count the microplastic in everyone's body yet. (scientist found that even the deepest and smallest sea creatures had microplastic in them, and they are at the lowest food chain. let that sink in (pun unintended))
no one has claimed it is mostly on or near the shore, you will close your studio at once
@@ManomiiFox This comment just made me go on a 10 minute searching spree about microplastics in my body. Now I have anxiety.
Framing this as a mystery really helped me connect with the video. Good educational storytelling!
before pandemic came, I used to always go to various beaches in my country with my family every school break, and then i went to one beach and i was on my way to the car and saw local people who live and work like opening shops close to the beach are burrying their trash in the beach 😭 they literally dug big holes at the beach and burry the trash, and not just one person who did that but many
omg where is this
@@vwgl1169 it's one of the beaches in jember, Indonesia but i forgot the name tho :(
That's so sad I wonder if they know the harms it could do :(
Omg they’re literally like,”if I can’t see it, they don’t exist,” 😭😭😭
This is why this is a never ending problem you will never ever get rid of all the plastic and garbage from our oceans because PEOPLE ARE LITTER BUGS 🐛 and might I add PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING
My dad always taught me don’t just look at it . Pick it up . This should be all of our mindset . Even the camera crew
Pick it up and put it where though?? Consolidated trash
My friend visited India, Bangalore, considered to be one if the most developed cities in India. He took pictures of people bulldozing(literally using heavy machinery at dump sites located next to rivers) trash into rivers in the middle of the city. If that can't be stopped, banning straws in US is not doing anything.
@Nekes12 War is not very environmental.
Thank you for making this video.
The oceans are incredibly important to the Earth and people should be aware of how bad it’s getting hit by our waste and negligence.
If you have Netflix... I really recommend Sea-piracy.
Watching this and talking about it on the internet isn't gonna help anything lol
And by having awareness, we can send out "waves of good vibes" with our "desires" for this to get better!
Thanks for addressing this critical issue. We need to first reduce the amount of plastics in everyday consumption, before reusing and recycling them.
Sadly in its current form recycling is a non tenable joke. We were duped by the companies with the recycling push in the 90's into buying more plastic because "it can be recycled" but they never really had systems in place for it. Re-use is by far the best method after and during reduction. Most plastic just isn't recyclable into anything outside of grocery bags.
Sorry for the dissertation but this is a subject I have be yelling to my piers and elders about since I was a teen in the late 90's and no one listened.
What about fishing equipment?
The vast majority of ocean plastic pollution is due to third world countries using their rivers as garbage dumps... start there. All of you people that are using reusable straws and bags are doing literally nothing except making yourselves feel morally superior.
@@kjjosker it's a start.
It's really annoying with COVID-19 I am banned from using reusable shopping bags because they might "spread disease" but it's perfectly OK for anyone to bring a my cell phone and purse in the grocery store. My reusable shopping bags might as well be sterilized surgery implements in comparison to the bacteria-ridden surfaces of smart phones or the inside of a purse teeming with bacteria. They're filthier than gas pump handles.
I recycle religiously. Yet I've seen articles saying very little plastics ARE recyclable ! WTH OVER ?
did it too, but stopped like 15 years ago, when i found out that it all lands on the same pile anyways 🤷♂
When I was a child, I saw sea shells on the beach. Now children see plastics. Very sad. WTG everyone, especially volunteers, who picks up beach trash.
I'm 26 now. When I was a child, I saw tonnes of plastic on the Seashore. It has been a while I went to the beach. I can't Imagine how much more plastic is there now.
That’s life. Welcome.
I pick up trash when I go to the shore, but I also find shells and beach treasures. Maybe people need to be more mindful with their trash.
I go to the beach a lot you need your city to do their job if your beach is not clean. That sounds like a local issue
Sorry just too many contradictions
Imagine mixing salt and pepper together. Now imagine trying to separate the salt and pepper after they've been mixed together. That's the task we face.
@Jamie B Yea, except it is young people who are gung-ho and deeply invested in this problem where as the older generations caused it and keep denying it. Get off your pedestal grandpa. You're the problem. The overwhelming majority of people under 30 believe in climate change, support policy like the Green New Deal, support holding corporations accountable, and constantly push for solving the plastic problem.
@@Thorgard360 you're a genius 👏🙌✨👌❤♥
@@obsoleteoptics Nah he just took introductory chemistry.
@@Thorgard360 ok now how do we solve the plastic in the ocean problem??
@@Thorgard360 ok bro he is using it as a general comparison
So, are we going to just going to study this forever or are we going to clean it up?
It's not that easy to just "clean it up". No matter how many times we clean up our ocean, our annual emission of plastic into the ocean will negate any efforts we put into "clean up". For now studying how plastic pollution effects our ecosystem and where our plastic pollution ends up at is the best course of action in cleaning up our garbage patch. We need to reduce our trash and reduce use of plastics before we can clean up our ocean. Whatever clean up we commit to, we need to change our economy around plastics.
@@kawaiidoggo I understand that but I don't know how many times I have seen 'studies' being done on this massive floating island of garbage... Instead of studying it, let's clean it up and figure a way to keep it out of the ocean...
@@kawaiidoggo That's b.s. BOTH cleaning the ocean and studying are key, not one or the other. Negligible improvements are still better than 0 improvements
@@FIXTREME yes you are correct. But at the rate of plastic polluting our ocean, it's better to understand all our alternatives. Taking actions creates an effect. In order to clean up the amount of garbage in our ocean, we will have to take a magnitude of energy so great that it can be detrimental to our climate. Studying for right now is best course of action. Why? When we finally understand, how much plastic is impacting our entire ocean, we will understand where we should mitigate plastic dumps. Should it be before we dump into ocean? Probably yes. But if it's in our ocean, at what point is it energy efficient and cost saving to clean up our ocean? These questions are still up to debate. Yeah we are currently taking considerable amount of energy and effort to clean up our ocean. But even we massive organizational effort and governmental support, we aren't really seeing any changes. Studies are best way to see how to deal with this situation. We have too limited understanding of our ocean current and ocean ecology that we can't comprehend how much "clean up" we need. I'm not saying we should halt any effort to clean up our ocean but we shouldn't make it bigger than deal than scientific studies into our ocean ecology. We barely scratch the surface on ocean ecology. We only know on the surface on how plastic affects our ecology. Shouldn't we probably get a bigger picture before we can create problem we didn't intent?
Talking about IT makes more money for this Organization.. We need to have the FACT CHECKERS look into THIS ISSUE.. The Operators of VOX is making a TON of Money off of producing this STUFF.. There a lot of money to be made by telling people what They are doing wrong..
5:25 " may actually be there for decades, if not centuries"
Did I get it wrong or he stated some plastic has been there for centuries? Cause that would be wrong, oldest platics are not older than 105 years.
I came here for this comment.
0:04
Texas is now the new official measuring standard
I need to know how many Toyota Corollas that is, or how many baby elephants.
They will use any measuring standard except the metric system
In high school I was told that the size of the garbage patch was the size of Texas, and now it’s Australia? That’s unsettling.
I really didn’t want to be that guy who corrects people, but idk if this is a joke moment or not. They said in the description that it’s twice the size of Texas not Australia.
plus also 5 such ocean garbage patches, not just one.
I like your anime pfp
@@tophatmetagross1497 twice the size of Texas is roughly the size of Australia
@@ace_stallion "Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 1,042% larger than Texas." 2 seconds to google :)
This is kind of a good news. If most of them are close to the shore or on the shore, then cleaning them would be a lot easier than when most of them are in the bottom or middle of the ocean. We should act fast than wait for them to get carried further when cleaning becomes more expensive.
Spoiler: We will Not clean it.
Yes, amazing
@@davidschut9905 come on! I was excited for the new earth arc!
This new environmental documentary exposes the secret to all this: the Connections (2021)
Vox does a really good job at packing lost of information into a short video. definitely will be volunteering at plastic clean ups
I feel like penalising companies that produce plastic, and making them fund the beach cleanups and ocean clean ups
Who buys from companies that produce plastics?
Should punish both
@@nicholassteenkamp7621 both the cleanups and the companies?
@@Name56784 no the beach and the companies
Start with the DuPont corporation. They started it. They also helped suppress biodegradable non toxic Hemp based alternatives
“It’s only one straw,” said 8 billion people. 😔
Better than throwing out 8 billion steel straws.
@@jnuval just drink it from the glass
@@jnuval Steel straws are reusable. And plus, people dont use one plastic straw, they use hundreds if not thousands in their life.
Plastic straws account for very little of ocean plastic waste. Mostly because they're easily recycled.
@@somethung8188 I've already thrown out multiple "reusable" straws because even with the cleaning brush, it still doesn't clean properly.
I was cycling home after a long day of work and when I looked into the canal I was cycling past I saw a nest and the baby ducks were sitting on a nest made of sticks, plastic bottles, plastic bags and other things. It was really sad to see.
It's good they are using it as a building material! As long as it's still got some use, it's not trash.
Great, they already start recycling. Best thing about it: this plastic nest will last hundred years.
So, you pick up the plastic on the beach, throw it into the trash, and it ends up back in the ocean again?
I don’t live by an ocean but anytime I’m visiting one, my mom and I always pick up trash which I’ve noticed usually gets people near us to pick up trash too! So sad to think what we’ve done to ourselves 😕
We didn't do this, subhumans did
@@tubeguy4066 we have a bit of subhuman in all of us
@@Jeskomor Don't blame the average person for this
@@SneedChuckGaming The average person consumes fossil fuels.
@@tubeguy4066 i blame you personally for this.
Healing the world.
Every government should have a program like this.
We share one planet.
Don't count on China or India to do anything.
When I was a kid I used to think, “Adults are so responsible, like; they always know what to do.”
How mistaken a man can be...
@@frankherman5195 or the us too
Hey guys. Would you be okay with living in a home built with well designed bricks, made with plastic and sand?
that is most unrealistic way to see reality
Unpopular possible solution: require food companies to use less plastic in their products, and yes I am talking about you Lays!😤
Majority of Plastic waste is Fishing Nets though
thats not enough. every corporation should be part of the government. this way we can ensure we do away with plastic.
@@anwpecirotan they say that, but what is it you find most washed up? surely if fishing nets were so the majority then why is it a minority that is found as waste?
bottled plastics and random broken down plastics are mostly what i see along the beaches i live near.
@@Dockhead did you guys even watch the video? Not all pollution is in the same place. Out at sea you’re gonna have more nets and things trapped by the currents and by the shores your gonna see bottles and such.
@@Dockhead go and watch seaspiracy on Netflix if you haven’t already. If you like eating fish, you may change your mind after watching that.
I came here from the video of ocean cleanup interceptor cleaning the river after the storm before all the trash gets to the ocean.
Wouldn't doing that take the trash away before it can spread to the beaches or sink to the bottom, as it's still fresh?
I find it interesting that the script never mentions fishing nets specifically, despite the fact that they are one of the most abundant (and dangerous to wildlife) sources of plastic pollution floating around, as you can see in the footage of the Ocean Cleanup shown in the video.
Still, very good video!
okay we know you have watched seaspiracy...
@@hiteshbonde1 hahaha I have indeed, but I already knew it from speaking to researchers (I'm studying to become a marine biologist at the moment).
@@hiteshbonde1 Vox watched Seaspiricy too. Are they ignoring the key points because critics were able to find little details questionable?
@@pyRoy6 And the NGOs represented but yes blame critics
@@pyRoy6 Vox literally had a NGO spew misinformation by writing an article on their website in regards to Seaspiracy - more likely pressured as they get paid
Great video, but you should also make a video or at least a section in this one, about how the corporations who initially produced and introduced these plastics are not taking responsibility for forcing consumers to use it.
Heyy I am making a video about this topic rn haha
agree
It's the consumer who buys the product, creates the market and litter. People love to blame the big companies
@@AVI.D go to the supermarket and buy 10 items. Tell me you’re not walking home with at least one piece of plastic packaging.
That's capitalism for ya
Future generations will be picking up the pieces quite literally.
And so what? Why bother doing this for future generations? We should live great as of right now.
@@munk3064 That is an incredibly selfish statement.
@@justanuff There will always be problems. Best to just live it good right now
@@munk3064 ‘great as of right now’ what’s great of right now when people like you exist
Important work. Thank you to all who are caring for our beautiful planet. I hope everyone will reduce plastic packaging and purchasing….
On my last trip to Cuba, on the Atlantic side, I scooped up a random handful of beach sand at the waterline. It was speckled with tiny plastic particles.
Most no larger than the grains of sand they were in. Sickening.
never happened
@@bc1173 0K, Mr.Troll. You should know!
What beach btw?
I agree 😔
Back in the day, when I was chillin' with MJ and the little one from the Beetles, we found a starfish at the shoreline of MJs multimillion dollar mansion.
Turns out it was plastic. Sickening.
I'm in the new york area and found a kinder egg capsule when I was cleaning up a beach, that plastic capsule must of traveled at least 100 miles
you know kinder eggs with capsule are sold in the US right?
@@soju69jinro i thought they were prohibited in the us, that's why they created kinder joy, right?
@@victorzaak Yeah, Kinder Surprise eggs are banned but Kinder Joy eggs are not. Then again, you can probably smuggle them. :)
@Daniel Marinho I collect sea shells and the biggest thing I find are beer cans and tampons.
It was probably dropped before the ban
PollyFill from Clothing, Toys, Pillows, and Blankets is everywhere. It’s in our soil water and intertwined with our tree root systems. Please try to buy natural fibers
Everyone should know the names of those responsible
DuPont
Mellon
Anslinger
And second hand
"These either come from synthetic clothing fibres or they are the results of other plastics breaking down". What you don't say is that MOST of it(>40% of all microplastic) comes from wheels from cars and asphalt. Challenging the destructive car culture of our society is apparently too daring for Vox. In the end we must ask ourselves of the pure laziness in driving every distance thats longer than our cars and building our cities in a way that makes cars difficult to reduce is worth poisining our whole ecosystem.
I remember when I was buying fruits I put them all in plastic bags, but why? Now I just throw it into the cart without any bag. Same with grocery bags, I take my own cotton or however it is written bag. I start to think how much, I as a 1 human being can use/produce plastic and its awfully big amount.
multiplied by 8 billion
Using a cotton bag is worse than using a plastic bag due to all the water and energy used to make one. The best bag none, reusing every bag and not throwing them away.
@@brothebys Not if the bags are made out of worn out old jeans, blankets or sheets. Super easy to make them yourself!
@@brothebys Surely you could find bags at a thrift store.
The best bag is the one you already have, whatever it's made out of.
I just hope these people engaged in ocean cleaning are being paid fairly if not well. They are doing an amazing work for our generation and to support their work, governments should charge the corporates whose key activities revolve around plastic products
A plastic tax would be a great idea. Would also force companies to look for a cheaper more sustainable replacement.
I hope they are all volunteers.
what about having a control on population? these big companies exists because of big population. high demand = high supply. population is the issue not the big companies. if u close apple today. another brand name zuchinni will come tomorrow. because huge demand from billions of people
Anubhav solankey I agree! tax and charge these companies.
@@MS-cl7jz it would be nice if all or any government cared enough to keep these large companies in check though , our obligation for convenience is human nature, which is a great reason why we have a body of people that is supposed to represent the best in us to make sure these companies want nothing but to provide the best For us. the sad reality is the body’s of government that are supposed to protect our best interest as humans have decided to protect the best interest of the companies who thrive and prey on every negative human trait we display, doing nothing less but encouraging the negative behavior on both ends. at this point we are pavlovs dogs, conditioned for the response they demand from us
The beach cleanup part did make me feel a little better, at least i can grab that
But where does that collected trash go?
@@j.s.1816
I’ve been wandering that myself
@@j.s.1816 Recycling and make energy ..... Lots of things but not 100%
@@Mizaeducation about 9% actually gets recycled, the rest goes to landfills. Also collecting beach plastics into plastic bags has a strong taste of irony to me.
The only way to get rid of plastic is to not manufacture it any longer. We lived without it once and we should be able to do it again.
Very informative!
This is what i should do if i see a verified person commented
Some of you might be interested in this new environmental documentary: The Connections (2021)
Not really since the video completely neglected that the main source for plastic in the ocean is from ocean going vessels and fishery.
In the Norwegian part, of the cleanup referred in the video, it counted for close to 60% of the total.
Also the that part embeded in sediments on the ocean floor will not enter into any cycle we care about for a very, very long time.
@@bknesheim The same people that are fomenting racial strife and the same people that are telling you to trust their health criteria are the same ones perpetuating this lie to cause fear, and fear divides people. Consider the facts. Published in the, "Journal of Hazardous Materials", plastic polymers exposed to sunlight while immersed in ocean water for two months degraded and dissolved at a higher rate than anyone thought possible; at 2.7 years, half of the plastics were dissolved. Furthermore, most of the plastic garbage comes from China, accounting for about 8.8 million tons per year, as compared with the U.S. at only 0.3 million tons. ~ quotes: "Ocean Plastics", "Liberty Nation", Nov. 14, 2019.
As I go through life and see how easily we do the harmful things we do to our planet, the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2 ring truer and truer, "it's in your nature to destroy yourselves. "
Evolution has not prepared us for a scenario where we must hold back or face destruction. The key to survival has always been pedal to the metal. So it's not strange that it is very hard for us to consume less than what is within our power. Like Arnold I don't judge us too harshly.
Imagine thinking its harmful for this planet plastic is absolutely nothing for this planet it will decompose in 20-500 years and thats a blink of an eye for earth which has been spinning for billions of years same with life its absolutely nothing life on earth have survived super volcanos ice ages extreme meteorites and other catastrophes. Ok that out of the way if someone wants to really help with plastic they shouldn't even think about getting it out of water rather restricting use of plastic with longest decompose lifetimes and restricting countries who do it most for example : China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam dump more plastic into ocean than all other countries combined(info from wikipedia).
Not only in our nation, it's a well-deserved death-wish because we aren't worth the dust we're made of.
There are not really that many " We" it's them that are causing the problems. They want to produce with no regard to the planet and then turn around and tell us they want to now save us, your practices got us to this point and now you care?.
@@MS-st1zb i bet youre american
Shout outs to Boyan Slat and The Ocean Clean Up team for doing something about it
YES!
@@oeautobody3586 his and his team's work has been incredible
I hate how people found out there were microscopic animals and jellyfish in there and then complained about him doing it. I mean getting rid of it I think saves more animals than it kills
Such an inspiring message and an excellent video. Such a pity that videos like this tend to focus on the (rather distracting) issues of recycling and individual cleanup over collective action and lobying government for better regulation. The most emblematic failure of modern environmentalists is the myth of individual action in recycling
I clicked this video on a positive note thinking we had actually removed 99% if the garbage 😂
Same
That would be amazing
The sooner we accept that we are all just guests on this Beautiful planet, then we will have strides in a good direction.
if no one owns that no one cares
So true ! Our life span in the greater time frame in just a minute fraction of time that the earth has been able to balance through natural occurrences . Plastic introduction is not one of them or 55 gallon drums or DDT . If we don't come up with a collaborative effort World wide to clean up the shores and tackle reclamation projects . The problem will continue and we will see contamination levels of plastic up the food chain .
That's what us muslims think! We are travellers on this planet, we came from God and will return to him. Thats why Muslim countries aren't that advanced in tech era.
Unfortunately in today's world Islam is represented Al Qaida or Taliban
@@umerasad Why can’t the elders of Islam explain to taliban that they are not Muslim ?
Idk how to explain this but, I'm glad old Vox is back.
A big German Survival UA-camr Fritz Meineke made a series "7vsWild" were he and other survivalist were send for 7 days to a spot with a limited number of material. In the seacond season they went to Isla San Jose in Panama. The Island is not inhabitated but there is one resort. They had spots on beaches around the whole coast. Those beaches were so full of plastic that they literally had enough building materials that it was way easier than the first season.
the guy that did the animation needs a raise
i agree
well did you actually mean needs or rather deserves?
@@2Dspectre yeah need might indicate that the animation could be better
FYI: The great pacific garbage patch is almost 50% fishing nets. Fishing industry is THE biggest threat to the oceans! Go watch Seaspiracy on Netflix if you haven't already. Eye-opening!
Watch debunking video about that lies in that
@@Arthur.Morgan.0 watch a debunking of the debunkings to see that the fishing industry is trying to hide information so that people keep consuming products that destroy our oceans
Glad to know I'm not supporting that as a vegan!!
I will not, only because they had a chance to name it conspirasea and did not
If you want to know more about plastic in the ocean and beachcombers, who treasure hunt and clean the beaches, I recommend watching the documentary Walk the Tideline by Anna Antsalo ☺️🌊
How about you read published research, try starting with PETase....
We need to penalize the companies for selling the plastics. They are the ones making the money off this.
Humans:
Throws platics in the ocean.
Finds them decades later and studies them.
Interesting 🤔
"Not the same people"
I expected to hear something about the fish nets, why is it not even mentioned?
4:00
But not supporting the fishing industry is a huge way to stop plastic from entering the ocean, why wasn’t that talked about?
@@renngriffin2401 exactly what I am wondering.
This makes me wonder how the uncontacted tribe on islands reacted to first seeing plastic wash up and how they use it.
When ships crashed on the shore they used the metal to make their tools so we kinda sent them into a bronze age, i imagine that they would also find uses for plastic as well
I from Hawaii, no one wants your trash
@@TCB2023. your clearly not uncontacted so be quiet also I imagine the uncontacted tribes actually do want trash so they can make tools that would have been impossible otherwise.
Also Just to clarify I’m not saying that it’s good that trash washes up everywhere I’m only talking about Uncontacted tribes.
@@bigshlump928 you're* just correcting it for educational purposes
@@aaronnunez2855 iron
Let's hear it for TeamSeas raising $30 million to get 30 million pounds of plastic from the ocean, including beach clean ups!
We should STOP dumping plastic and garbage to the environment. Lets eliminate plastic pollution!
Yes! By the way your DNA 🧬🧬🧬 Videos are awesome buddy
we should
@@moremitochondria2737 💯👍
@@temlee7865 hahha thanks
For those interested, the beach at 7:39 is Battle Rock Wayside Park next to Port Orford in Oregon.
No one cares.
@@JayZeeeeeeee I do
Sometimes I am truly ashamed to be human because of things like this.
I also heard that there is plastic at the bottom of Mariana Trench and I would not be surprised if that is the truth.
Sealed can of Spam, beer bottles, plastic bags, 7/3/19, Google. In Mariana Trench, “higher levels of pollution in certain regions than some of the most polluted rivers in China”.
This makes me proud to be human.
@@NoName-cx4ph 😂
Dude, humen are the best species, only us could put plastic on bottom of the deepest trench on earth. We also dominate all other animal species 💪💪💪
@Garl Kurzer im 99% sure that this is a joke but 1% of me is concerned
Did anyone else get an ad for USP plastic bottles before this video?
I live how tone-deaf UA-cam ads are sometimes. Truly incredible.
Again, not a word about the impact of fishing industry. There is even footage of people pulling old fishing nets out of the water...
Yup pretty much, Vox yet again conveniently ignoring animal and fish industries harmful contributions to the environment
That's an entire different video... or Video essay...
@@bradh3292 It relates to plastics so no
@@bradh3292 It's absolutely the same problem. An even bigger problem than bottlecaps and wrappers!
@@ONeill01 Plastic from the fishing industry is literally the majority of plastic in the ocean by weight, including the great pacific garbage patch.
Cool to hear that beach clean ups matter. But we don't have good recycle (here in the US) so when you recycle the stuff you've cleaned up, it just ends up back in the heap! Thought provoking stuff.
Uhhh no. When you recycle things it gets...well recycled. And goes back into other things. You think they just get recyclables and just throw them back into the ocean and trash heaps 🤣
@@purpledragon2504 actually this is wrong. Most recycled things don't actually get recycled. They usually get thrown in landfills as only very specific products can be recycled. So even if you recycle items the chance of them actually being recycled is very low.
@@purpledragon2504 "You think they just get recyclables and just throw them back into the ocean and trash heaps 🤣" Yes. This absolutely DOES happen, all the time. The problem with recycling is that it's often not as profitable as just buying new plastics, so there's no market for recycled products in a capitalist system oftentimes. As a result, a lot of collected recyclables ends up in landfill.
@@robokill387 read my reply to the previous comment please. I said that because the comment stated, that when you recycle stuff it ends up back in the heap, which is true but only partially as not all recyclables get thrown in the heap
I think we all know pollution isn’t just an individual problem...
Its not my problem
it aint my problem if i dont throw plastic
Oil companies must be accountable for all of the mess they are doing.
Erica i think if you replace with your conditioner and shampoo bottles , your oils . lipstick wrapper, mascara , hair dye and even suscreen . tampons and everything else that require plastic in your bathroom you'll find that you are massive polluter
@@Remigiush123 I agree. Plastic is a petroleum product.
Remember when it was save the trees and plastic replaced virtually everything formerly made from trees...🤔
This is actually pretty hopeful when you think about it, it means that just by cleaning up those areas near the shoreline we can do a lot to help prevent plastic from entering the ocean where it'll do the most damage. That's definitely something that more people should know because if it becomes one of those facts that everyone knows so that everyone will pick up trash when they're at the beach it'll probably do a lot.
I recommend you go online to the Save Our Shores website. They're an organization that organizes coastal cleanups on regular bases and they provide resources to people looking to clean up beaches
But then where does the waste go from the pu? I assume the same place it went to before it ended up in the ocean. So basically they are piling those bags of garbage up to just be thrown right back into the ocean. Picking up the beach is not the solution, it's an endless cycle. Consumption, production and advertising has to change.
@@kristina3901 if you look up how Singapore deals with their garbage, they have a fantastic system that not only cleans the area of trash but cleans the local air. It reduces Singapore's actual waste footprint to less than 10% of what it would be if they treated their waste the way other countries do, and it needs to be made into a model. For now, removing ocean plastic is still super important
I like the optimisim
@@MathasiaJ singapore is the size of a medium to large sized city in america, it's hard to implement one of the worlds smallest countries policies into a larger country, not to mention singapore doesn't even have cars except for the super rich.
Just imagine the epic journey of that plastic bag. It has archived what most people could only dreamed of.
Imagine throwing away trash and someone picks it up and recycles it and 2 months later you buy candy and the wrapper is made from the recycled plastic lol
Plastic bag, first made in the factory
Then, some person uses it for some items
Say, kEtchup bottle-
Then they just throw it away
It gets dumped to the ocean
It stays there for years
It gets brought back decades later and brought to a recycling center
That candy wrapper? Held a ketchup bottle in 1983
@@JapaneseSoomi Plastic isn't as recyclable as people think.
@@Tadfafty exactly lol barely any plastic gets recycled. They just say that to make people feel better about themselves
We're sprinting towards Wall-e faster than covid spread at this point
I remember sometimes camping at this place we called Garbage Beach in Hawai'i. The garbage was more sun bleached and rubbed down like sea glass, and rather pretty in terms of plastic trash. You could see that so much of had come from Asia based on writing on some objects. As well, some you could see was from the 90s or 80s. Craziness...