Backyard Aquaponics
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Wow, that's something. Some day the ocean will have many PPM of plastic crumbs in it. We truly are trashing the whole world. I personally hate it when the things I buy come in a plastic bag holding a plastic container with each part is further packaged in more plastic all held in place by plastic tape and plastic ties.. And the very item I'm digging for is plastic too. I need to recycle my plastics..

didn't we try that 25 years ago?

What did we try? I was six then...maybe it worked

well not 25 years ago, but i distinctly remember the enviro education trend at school and on tv when i was in grade 5, so what does that make it? 20 years go.

and for the most part i'd have to say that my 30 something peers (except you weird lot!) are the plastic consuming fertilizer and pesticide using consumers from hell. Sure everyone KNOWS stuff now, and idealises about it, but in practive not much has changed from our parents

Fair enough. I still say even though things may not change with education/awareness, they will not change without it.

But sponsorship by maccas doesn't sound right

ironic really.
a lot of the rubbish they pick up is fast food related.

Adults or at least older persons set the 'attitude' for the 'next generation' (or to rebel against it if you lived in the sixtys and seventy's). Cooking now is a matter of do we upgrade to the extra fries and coke. Don't do it now, it will never happen.
EB
This topic should probably have been on the 'venting thread'

It's good for people to vent sometimes...

we need another "stick it to the man" era, i missed out last time

Hippy is just an attitude Steve, not an era

Hey .. I was there... I'm tellin ya... it was an error

Yeh, but numbers make it cooler

Error? Errror? Error?

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-exp ... _animation

heres another animation of the trash vortex.

Worst thing is the plastic is so broken up and spread out even Antarctic krill are gutloaded with it.