Leah- I'm sure you had a point, but I'm not positive what it was.

Due to the humorous links you posted, I have to assume you took the sarcastic route, and it would have helped if you added a wink and a smile to your posts like this: , this , or this .

LOL!
I read that first article and was laughing out-loud! Thanks!
It's like the daily "Onion News"... funny s---!

Quote:
"80% of all plastic at sea has come from the land."
LOL!!!!! Funny! 80%? That's it?
I guess I was wrong. I would have said 100% of the plastic was washed into the oceans from the land. I guess 20% is just born there!?

Funny stuff.
Continent sized islands of floating plastics....
If they were talking figuratively, as a metaphor, MAYBE I would have been able to keep from laughing. It sounded like they were serious though.

In a figurative way, I would say there could be, perhaps, one pound of plastic per square mile on the ocean... that is a reasonable number.

It would take 70,000 tons of plastic to put one pound floating per square mile. The surface area of the world's oceans cover 140 million sqaure miles. Oceans are pretty vast. Now we're not even talking volume. Consider the volume of the ocean water, and well, there's less plastic in the ocean right now ( in parts per trillion ) than there is plutonium in your house right now ( and there is some, trust me ).

That's scientific fact. Thanks for the fun reading though!
-John

P.S. This thread is derailed. To discuss any "garbage" or lack of it, let's start a new thread. Sorry for contributing to the derailment. This should be a place for pros / cons of ethanol.

P.P.S. Another person stated that plastic is a valuable commodity. Worth something like 10 to 50 cents a pound as scrap / salvage. I agree. If there were millions or billions of pounds floating in one place, nations, especially developing nations ( China ) would be quick to scoop up this valuable resource! In fact, nations would be fighting over who could claim it! Am I a sucker for even reading the article? Is the joke on me?