Oprah Highlights Massive Pacific Trash Vortex (Of Doom)
Filed under: film-tv, green and famous, television — Michael d'Estries @ 12:56 pm
April 23rd 2009
As part of Oprah’s Earth Day special yesterday, the 55-year-old host devoted time to discussing the health of oceans — and the serious waste found floating in them. Of particular interest was the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” — an area of floating trash estimated to be twice the size of Texas, and in some places 90ft. deep. Oprah described it as “the most shocking thing I have seen”. You can check out a short clip from the episode over on Huffington Post, or view a clip from VBS.tv on “Garbage Island” below.
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FINALLY some exposure of this issue on a mainstream mass-scale!
Ever since I heard about this last year, I’ve been trying to figure out how to help. Best answer so far is don’t let the litter get into the oceans (and rivers that get to the ocean) in the 1st place. My wife started a “love the Sea, pick up 3″ movement within our circles. Everytime we go to the beach we pick up at least 3 peices of garbage, esp plastic!
The Patch is in the “Great Pacific SubTropical Gyre”, FYI
When I saw that all I could think was ‘Humans are disgusting’.
But then there’s me, and lots of people like me, who would never ever drop a piece of litter to the ground, and dedicate a portion of square footage at the house for recycling.
I sincerely hope for a better future.