Comments on: Voyage To The Plastic Island Of Garbage http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:32:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Checking Back In With SEAPLEX | The Intersection | U Reader | Your daily news stop station ... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-37400 Checking Back In With SEAPLEX | The Intersection | U Reader | Your daily news stop station ... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:36:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/#comment-37400 [...] SEAPLEX (Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition) voyage to the island of garbage in the North Pacific Gyre continues… Watch sea reptile dilettante Josh Jones muster his [...] [...] SEAPLEX (Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition) voyage to the island of garbage in the North Pacific Gyre continues… Watch sea reptile dilettante Josh Jones muster his [...]

]]> By: Understanding The Texas-Sized Island Of Garbage | The Intersection | U Reader | Your daily news stop station ... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-36438 Understanding The Texas-Sized Island Of Garbage | The Intersection | U Reader | Your daily news stop station ... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:18:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/#comment-36438 [...] the voyage to the island of garbage in the North Pacific Gyre? It’s a unqiue partnership in between Scripps Institution of [...] [...] the voyage to the island of garbage in the North Pacific Gyre? It’s a unqiue partnership in between Scripps Institution of [...]

]]> By: Checking Back In With SEAPLEX | The Intersection | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-35176 Checking Back In With SEAPLEX | The Intersection | Discover Magazine Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:26:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/#comment-35176 [...] SEAPLEX (Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition) voyage to the island of garbage in the North Pacific Gyre continues… Watch marine mammal specialist Josh Jones deploy his [...] [...] SEAPLEX (Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition) voyage to the island of garbage in the North Pacific Gyre continues… Watch marine mammal specialist Josh Jones deploy his [...]

]]> By: Voyage To The Texas-Sized Island Of Garbage (Part II) | The Intersection | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-31232 Voyage To The Texas-Sized Island Of Garbage (Part II) | The Intersection | Discover Magazine Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:27:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/#comment-31232 [...] the SEAPLEX/Project Kaisei voyage to the island of garbage in the North Pacific Gyre? It’s a unqiue collaboration [...] [...] the SEAPLEX/Project Kaisei voyage to the island of garbage in the North Pacific Gyre? It’s a unqiue collaboration [...]

]]> By: James Randolph http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-31042 James Randolph Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:47:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/#comment-31042 I have read several articles on this, and my skeptecism is on the decline I admit. The theme of all of the articles that I have read thus far however seems to be focused on what thy gyre actually is, where it is, and if it in fact "is". Do you guys know of any serious agencies/endeavours to get started on either cleaning this mess up or figuring out how to get started cleaning it up? As a fish eater myself, I am very concerned and would like to help. I have read several articles on this, and my skeptecism is on the decline I admit. The theme of all of the articles that I have read thus far however seems to be focused on what thy gyre actually is, where it is, and if it in fact “is”. Do you guys know of any serious agencies/endeavours to get started on either cleaning this mess up or figuring out how to get started cleaning it up? As a fish eater myself, I am very concerned and would like to help.

]]> By: tOM Trottier http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-29219 tOM Trottier Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:30:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/#comment-29219 If the ocean currents are going to concentrate it, it sounds like a good opportunity to scoop it up and dispose of it safely. tOM If the ocean currents are going to concentrate it, it sounds like a good opportunity to scoop it up and dispose of it safely.

tOM

]]> By: Blogger http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-29193 Blogger Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:53:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/#comment-29193 Here is a visualization: http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0905/trans0509throughthegyre.html Here is a visualization: http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/0905/trans0509throughthegyre.html

]]> By: wjv http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-29145 wjv Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:30:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/#comment-29145 Fitz, There is no "island" of plastic garbage, by which I mean one that you could presumably step onto and hang out there. There is however an area of ocean roughly the size of Texas in which if you were to scoop up water you would invariably collect several grams of small plastic debris, ranging in size from microns to bouys and tangles of net (several meters wide). So don't think of it as an island, but rather a texas sized plastic film resting on the ocean's surface. Fitz,

There is no “island” of plastic garbage, by which I mean one that you could presumably step onto and hang out there.

There is however an area of ocean roughly the size of Texas in which if you were to scoop up water you would invariably collect several grams of small plastic debris, ranging in size from microns to bouys and tangles of net (several meters wide).

So don’t think of it as an island, but rather a texas sized plastic film resting on the ocean’s surface.

]]> By: Lowell http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-29028 Lowell Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:24:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/#comment-29028 Fitz, evidently that's just part of effective science communication. Sometimes you have to make stuff up to get the hoi polloi interested. Fitz, evidently that’s just part of effective science communication. Sometimes you have to make stuff up to get the hoi polloi interested.

]]> By: Fitz http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/comment-page-1/#comment-29009 Fitz Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:35:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/08/04/voyage-to-the-texas-sized-plastic-island-of-garbage/#comment-29009 So is there any evidence that an "artificial 'plastic' island" actually exists? http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4132 So is there any evidence that an “artificial ‘plastic’ island” actually exists?

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4132

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