Stop garbage from entering oceans & stop ships from dumping at s
September 02, 2009 | 06:35 PM

To those who say there is no Garbage Patch & there are no photos -- JUST GOOGLE IT & you'll see the HORRIBLE MESS !!!!!! I remember while taking a cruise to Bahamas in the late 1970s, being a night-owl, I saw the crew dumping ALL the ship's garbage in the Atlantic Ocean !!!!!! I spoke to the Capt. who feined ignorance to the dumping & when I returned to Miami I went to the Herald & reported what I saw & they poo-pooed it !!! I wrote NOAA & they said they knew of dumping & were "working" on it & did I have any photos? I didn't as I hadn't expected to see anything to photograph at 3A.M., I'd been WRONG !!!!!!! As life caught up with me I "forgot" about it, until recently when I first heard about the Great Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch !!!!! I was appalled & sickened to the point of being physically ill !!!!!!! I am sooooooooooo sorry I didn't try a lot harder to get SOMEONE to LISTEN to me back in the 70s !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just hope to God that our scientists can come up with a way to effectively rid the earth of this garbage forever, b4 it's too late & it almost is !!!!!!!!
I would not want to see it moved to Antartica as it would end up overheating the continent & causing even greater problems.
Perhaps if we could compact it enough & find a feasable way to shoot it into the farthest reaches of deep space that would work as space is infinate (never ending). But we MUST stop making all but the most essential plastic (medical plastics = good, anything that can be made with nothing else & is necessary to protect & save lives would be OK, but other than that -- we go back to the OLD WAYS of GLASS & TIN & ALUMINUM) !!!!!!!!!!!! I remember when COKE came in a GLASS BOTTLE & tasted soooooooooooooo wonderful !!!! You drank it & returned the bottle for 5-cents !!!!! Milk can in GLASS BOTTLES, so did veggies & fruit, etc., etc. !!!!!!!!!!!! The OLD WAYS are usually the BEST WAYS !!!!!!!! I'll bet many of you have NEVER seen MILK or COKE in a GLASS BOTTLE, but believe me the TASTE is SOOOOOOOOO MUCH BETTER & I'll bet 100k-times healthier as I know that plastic leaches chemicals into whatever is put into it & we are screwing up our fabulous genes that took nature millions & millions of years to create & we've destroyed it in the years since plastics came into use about the time of WWII (1945+) !!!!!!! That's a mere 65 to 69 years to destroy the WORLD & OURSELVES !!!!!!!!!! BRILLIANT !!!!! follow the MONEY TRAIL !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Barbara Barker -- S.W. FLA.