Well, it was easy, I just became aware of the immensity of the garbage we as a species on the planet are creating and that I was personally creating a huge mound of it!!! Just simply a moment of conscience. Yikes!!!
Here is the FACT that shocked me and got me motivated....
Did you know that there is a floating garbage patch of plastics in the ocean TWICE THE SIZE OF TEXAS and up to 90 feet deep, in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California???
check these links
out:http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pollution/trash-vortex?MM_URL=http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/our-oceans/pollution/trash-vortex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
- 70% of the garbage in the ocean is on the sea floor. This means that the island is only a fraction of the garbage problem.
- 90% of ocean garbage is plastic.
- The plastic doesn’t break down chemically, it only breaks into smaller and smaller pieces. Eventually, the pieces become small enough to move into the food chain.
- Most of the garbage that ends up in the ocean comes from land. It’s simple, really: trash travels over land, into the streams, and out to the ocean. Our garbage - yours and mine - is ending up in the ocean.
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