Comments on: Fear the Plastic Ocean: CloseTheLoop Fences

By: Jersey

Jersey — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:05:38 +0000

The amount of plastic waste that this society generates is shameful. While plastics do provide a modern convenience, their inexpensive price makes them easily disposable. I cringe every time my children bring home a useless kids meal toy that ends up in the trash a few days later. After reading your post, I will put a stop to this and explain to them the environmental impacts of that small action. Perhaps next time they will decline the toy with no argument. But I wish that the food chains would not even include these with the meals. I know that this is just an iota of the big problem but if everyone were like minded in helping the environment then that would be a big step.

By: Best coffee maker

Best coffee maker — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:41:33 +0000

Plastic is really harmful for our society and as for our environment. We should caprice about our future. If we would like to save our future without any harmfulness we have to conscious about using plastic.

By: Only Designer Handbags

Only Designer Handbags — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:32:13 +0000

Many plastics have been shown to have serious health consequences. Toxic substances are emitted or leeched during production, use and disposal of most plastics.

By: Pixelhead

Pixelhead — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:42:32 +0000

Torlon, I am sure the ocean isn’t picky about what types of plastics it takes. I am sure some of the high performance plastics could be found in the debris as well.

By: Torlon

Torlon — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:32:06 +0000

Do you think the “Plastic Ocean” is full of all types of plastics, such as Torlon, Ketron, Ertalyte and other high performance engineering plastics? Or is it full of the consumer waste plastics such as Polyethylene Plastic and the like?