EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler will be in Japan to meet with the environmental ministers of the world's top 20 largest economies with ocean trash cleanup as a priority issue...and Trump is on the right side of this.

I suggest we take all our old used oil and dump it on the floating trash pile and light it up... 2 birds with one stone and stuff... 😟

great idea.
didn't they come up wif some kinda petroleum eating amoeba a few years ago though?

We'll burn them too... 😟

yah!

Problem is only a certain % of the trash is actually floating. Saw underwater pics and it was not pretty.

****ushima me running

When I come back from vacation in October, a friend is coming back out with me for a week and we plan to do some snorkeling and stuff.

I rode my bicycle around part of the perimeter of the island looking for good snorkeling spots.

You wouldn't believe how many flip flops and plastic bottles and all sorts of other debris is washed up on the shore line.

It's a mess for sure.

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I lost my fip flip flops.

X is gonna burn 'em

I blame Trump

I was watching a survival documentary and they actually included tips on how to use washed up trash found on even the remotest islands now. Made me mad/sad. We cut up all plastic in this house before recycling just to be safe that nothing could get wrapped around an animal.

But the small scraps of plastic won't help me survive

We try to recycle our disposable, plastic grocery bags, but our local recycling centers are starting to ban them from recycling.

This is certainly a step in the right direction. I hope that the world can come to some sort of reasonable decision on how to deal with the mess that we've created.

I would hate to see this become another politicized mess like global climate change. 🐴

There shouldn't be any debate as to the existence of the problem.
Pretty straight forward:
1) Plastic garbage is in the water;
2) let's find a way to clean it up and dispose of it in an environmentally responsible way.

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We should put it on a rocket and send it to da moon.. 😟

Ironically, plastic waste decomposes better blowing or floating around versus sealing it up in a landfill. Sun, soil, micro organisms, abrasion, etc..

We still hate to see the trash - it is a visible expression of our waste.

Recycling can work here but not in all of the countries worldwide that just dump their garbage in the rivers and oceans.

I've got an idea to solve this - ban plastic straws in the U.S.!

There's a dude here that has a taco place.. refuses to provide straws but serves drinks out of styrofoam cups... 😟

If I had To guess?

I bet several "sh*t hole" countries all around the world dump all their trash at sea...
Like Nigeria, Somalia, Madagascar, Egypt, turkey,
Malaysia, north Korea, China, Colombia, MEXICO...etc...

Cruise ships dump raw sho*t sewage directly into the ocean, military ships, fishing ships...all ships dump some or all food scraps and trash instead of hauling it back to land...uses way less fuel that way...

Ask MACS?
I'LL BET HE KNOWS A LOT ABOUT SHIP WASTE...he was a navy sailor...love to hear his input...

We should STRAP DRAFTER X TO A ROCKET TOO...AND SEND HIM TO THE MOON WEARING ONLY USED AND LOST BEACH RECOVERED FLIP FLOPS...😀🌚🌑🔥💥🚀🚀🚀🌛🌛🌝🌝🌝