"Virtually every piece of plastic ever made, still exists."

...Is a comment I appreciated hearing.

And, I wonder if every boat couldn't be required to have some kind of a net/screen to pick up plastic bits, which float.

It would slow the boats down, of course, or require more fuel consumption, but the screening required could be proportionate to the size of the vessel.

The comment which shocked me the most was that there are some 45,000 (or 145,000) pieces of plastic in every one square mile of ocean.


Another point that really distressed me was the beach autopsy on a whale in Florida.

It had ingested coils of rope, plastic bottles, and slugs of rubber used to make rubber objects. These last had apparently fallen off ships.


The U.S. Coast Guard in Floridian waters apparently dropped batteries overboard when replacing the ones in lighted buoys.


And, people owning waterfront property could be required to pay part of their taxes in beach trash...cruise ships could be required to cough up a certain amount of trash per customer at the end of a trip.

:)

Well, I can dream, can't I?



I searched some of the pages of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, and Sylvia Earle (she's world-famous), etc., and I enjoyed reading the substitutes for fished-out varieties.

Turns out that I've been eating some of them already.

Fishermen have made the mistake of sticking to the big-name varieties demanded by merchants (to guarantee high sales figures), not realizing that the public will buy what is offered...as long as it tastes okay...and they can afford it.


...But, don't try to get us to settle for man-cultured fish. We've seen how they've been palming off "food substitutes" to us, and our pets.

We seniors know more than the big food processors have forgotten.

That row of tobacco company executives, each swearing that they don't believe smoking tobacco is addictive, was a great lesson.

And, of course, what you eat has no affect on your health.

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