A comment was left on this article http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/teen-decomposes-plastic-bag-in-three-months.php on Treehugger. “Interesting. And the digestion output is water. Could these be turned loose in the Pacific Gyre?” Which definitely poses a noteworthy question. The Pacific Gyre, a vortex in the North Pacific Ocean is now home to a “Garbage Patch” estimated to be the size of Texas to double the size of the US. That kind of mass amount of trash and debris obviously leads to some pretty complicated ecological impacts with animals ingesting the plastic they think is food and introducing it to the food chain. Unfortunately, the plastic is photograding, which is still breaking it down due to the sunlight constantly bombarding it and further decomposition may just make it easier to for the animals to get a hold of the smaller bits. Perhaps its a solution that should be evaluated. Who knows? It could be the answer.
Marcus Eriksen of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation makes routine trips to the Central Pacific to research the plastic island there. Algalita is a Long Beach based non profit. Check them out at www.algalita.org
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I was wondering why they didn't come up with an solution. I'd say build some modified oilplatform which recycles the plastic parts from out of see into like big plastic bars or something. but i think USA and asia dont want to take responsability for their own mess,those bastards!
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