if you're watching our team here are your top headlines russia urges the un security council to help end of the violence suppression of anti-government protests in syria moscow has called for that use new round of sanctions targeting syria's oil exports inefficient in resolving the conflict. in libya rebels that surround one of the can off his last remaining strongholds east of tripoli with reports of one of the criminals sons being killed in the area. and other top stories this week hundreds of thousands of israelis take to the streets across the country demanding the government improve the living standards rather than spending money on settlements and the military. and next on a hearty watch our global how global seas turn to plastic soup as we follow the

investigation of a team of environmentalists. he . closed the soup of the northeast over a good earth to suit. your project all these things are always to come through the . door so shocking new and old photos. just is the first place to call them in the stomach of the if you translate

it to you in body size this will be to their fruits in the stomach. so in the past five minutes here in the concentrate i took a little walk around to see how many styrofoam cups i can pick up and five minutes what you see here is what six people would consume in one week of drinking coffee every day so many people think that their individual actions don't really have an impact but if you multiply this by the millions and millions of people that drink coffee in los angeles alone you can start to understand how we see something like this in every single river every single creek everest single stream and loss angeles behind me is cancian creek it's one of the many streams that drains the los

angeles area and this stream will go into the los angeles river and then out to the civic ocean the purpose of this boat is to to get attention and get politicians get other schoolteachers get the public to look at us and listen to our story. listening to not as an m. a story is like being the most on the planet seas and taking the time to look. in the mediterranean alone there are three million tons of garbage drifting around and eighty percent of it is plastic. we don't think about it but the sea bed wasn't always covered with these of an identifiable christian objects. we're really the third generation to make massive use of plastics. all this is the result

of sixty years of consumption. we've led class to colonize the sea. on the surface. a few meters down. and of the depth of one thousand meters. with all of this material will be down here for ages especially where it's really data there's much less oxygen and no light whatsoever i mean those are factors which help break down the plastic so the stuff will be around for a few hundred years and have his you kind of lose your dreams when you go really deep in the for the one thousand meters for instance in the sky you imagine something mysterious and completely different and also when you get down there and you see piles of plastic and rubbish it's just awful as i was i was just so much as a three and a half. the ocean's being stuffed with plastic

. and force feeding them. but there's something we haven't thought. the count digested. the nets are full of there's nothing the racket was about to catch. this material has revolutionized long lives today because of one prize. what happens to plastic once it's in the ocean is really a new age as we've always been told doesn't really have new effects on animals or humans. is one of the thinking heads of a professional syndicate once you are in and you realize all the benefits that this that the you all is bringing to the society to the quality of life you are

convinced that plastic is fantastic and then you want to explain that to everybody to prove that this product is not venturous at all as is providing quite a lot of marvelous things if lest it wouldn't be existing the resources for the planet you would this deal everything that planets we live on would be totally exhausted it's thanks to the plastic which has been invented and this really speaking in the fifty's we have been able to produce so much material so much products that we use every day.

but you just came back from a drive out in the desert one of the aircraft boneyard or picked up a cessna for a few hundred bucks now it's missing the wings is missing the engine everything else except for the fuselage this is ideal because it's lightweight it has the doors intact the windows are intact waterproof it will make it waterproof. marcus erikson is a dedicated militant against the last fifteen years he's been counseling along america's rivers he's seen the pollution grow and it keeps growing. one day marcus had a dream so the whole world would care about the problem he hopes to mobilize the climate plan so you can see is an old airplane cabin sitting on fifteen thousand plastic bottles. with the energy of someone who is determined to change the world the setting out from two thousand five hundred mile trip audio production.

so this is. over a thousand people school clear across the country of chicago have given us messages about the ocean and about plastics which we're going to take across the ocean and bring back and share with policymakers to try to get something done about this plastics issue. that's right next to the bottle. this is the marine mammal center one of the biggest organizations of its time. for thirty five years a thousand volunteers have constantly surveyed the beaches and we've just been in time california coast to help undernourished all sick and. over the years they've had to learn to deal with new kinds of foods. there

definitely are crazy animals admitted to our facility within time. we have. this in mind that was attached to a hook that came out of an elephant seal stomach we have a big black bear and that was wrapped around a sea lion and now we have. monofilament guy that was wrapped around his the lion flaccus well inside of it now and then we have a lot of stress and strain that was found wrapped around a bottle of a first the other actually endangered species so it's very much of a concern. last night stem stop fishing. there have been cases of strangulation in the homes of the species of seals and sea lions. beaches species of whales have suffered and incidents with plastic.

plastic can mean kill. and also suffocate. although the volunteers of the marine mammal center manage to save dozens of animals every year the vast majority are inaccessible. but we can see that it's very deep the biggest problem with something like this is this animal they are female she's going to grow some more and that is when i'm an adult as after a while it could end up strangling her or stop her from being able to eat for a lot of five plastic items found in the sea come from what we threw away and. here is some of the first collateral victims three hundred marine species of victims of plastic.

twenty years ago young man from a caring adult seabird specialist started an experiment on foreman's a common species in northern europe. he wanted to know what the apes. completely straightforward investigation. but its results were a big surprise i looked at homer simplistic more or less by accident because in the early one nine hundred eighty s. i found more or less tapes and at that time stef i didn't know it all in in the stomachs which later proved to be industrial place that well that the first time i realized there was a place that in a bird stomach it was. a mason. young who saluted his european colleagues. his determines knew how many films are

affected. is received and analysed three thousand birds found beached along the coastline of eight countries. to firm niland royalist green bit this piece of plastic still with and dirty ninety five percent of these birds flying dustin's there's all sorts of fragments of broken a plastic items and here this. at least seven industrial plastic granules ok where their fear is the efforts to contain the fall not in the certain north sea so if you translate it to humans eyes. this is will be there for each in the stomach and so in that case there's no only this place where there's a little bit for you we have created this is an old elsie. according to the united nations plastic is no part of the doctor part of the species of c b s

. but. thanks to the use of pesticides we protect the planet and we protect the climate evolution as well if you would have to replace the best of packaging back of them until you then you would have to multiply the the weight of the beheading wife or the price of the packaging by two and the amount of waste by one point six. fifteen plastic. marcus and his friend joe the sailing mid pacific sitting on thousands of slightly leaky bottles marcus's plan has already worked his exploit is being followed by millions of people on the internet. so it can affect some policy. it's a policy to help curb the exploitation of. a synthetic chemicals that we had to use

to our advantage short term advantage but now we're finding out just colluding our world in really i could feel that it's going to impact the next generation my kids or feel it so i feel like. you're obligated to do something it's an obligation but knowing something's wrong you can't do nothing otherwise you're up to your accomplice. in the mansion twenty is an english beer and not blandish but particularly fascinated idea. if it had a number of ships which regularly followed the same north european shipping lanes with the strange device.

it was a record of ships have been towing them every month ever since. and these are time machines to be kept as treasures. and recorders contain cassettes with which you can trace the evolution of plankton in the english channel the north atlantic. one hundred seventy thousand samples a plantain which has been trapped over five million miles a spider's web woven over almost one hundred years. these devices have provided some unexpected and precious scientific proof. to us that one of its catching black comic organisms maybe is catching small pieces

of plastic at the same time so we went back through historic samples we sampled from the ninety six days the ninety seventy's the eighty's and ninety's and then compared abundance through time and that's where we we showed that it had increased significantly when you compare the one nine hundred sixty s. and ninety's. this british scientist has proof of the increasing pollution of the channel in the atlantic. in fact plastic never decomposes into the environment it just breaks down into small bits over time so even if we stopped producing plastics tomorrow which is not something that i would advocate because i actually think plastics can bring many benefits to society that even if we did the legacy of the plastics that we produced there fragmentation would continue for many decades and centuries to come. marcus wants to share the scientific discoveries. all the plastic which has ended up in the sea is still there. three months and

several storms later he finally reaches hawaii on his plastic bottle raft it was enough to make him a hero of modern times and struggled to start and get some attention. there's a steady trend of increasing plastic and it's growing exponentially sort of the purpose of this is to get the world where there's been talk about solutions what do we do about this issue. this is busy consciousness raising on the other side of the planet richard thompson

is busy collecting scientific evidence of the contamination of the marine have attempted by plastics. i was just interested world this is a plastics that are forming by the breakdown of large pieces or what is the smallest piece of plastic present on the beach that was the challenge i set to two of my graduate students just a little over ten years ago. richard has found fragments of plastic we can be measured in microns finer than a human. and used for huge quantities on from. all of the pieces that we we extract that look a little bit unusual around about a third we can found to be plastic he thought that maybe his findings were the

result of a freak event on a particular plymouth beach so he analyzed the sound of ten other british creatures and he took all studies of the same time worldwide. we found these materials every place we've examined and that surprised me the ubiquity the fact that these we know that large items of debris and now covering the ocean's surface down in the deep sea bed but the fact that they chose worldwide and now contaminated with small fragments of plastic was actually quite surprising to me i expected that maybe as we move to more remote places they passed we wouldn't find any plastics at this this microscopic scale but in fact we have. people are thinking that plastics are producing and speak with the are totally ignoring the an enormous amount of the benefits benefits that you get from the

place they could tell you all right means less consumption and cetera if you have the light lighter vehicles then automatically the consumption is very slow or one hundred kilo less for a car is zero one free and liter program that kilometer. captain charles moore is fed up of seeing the oceans used as a dumping ground. he traces the few view of plastic back to the origin. of both before becoming a bottle of blister pack plastic comes from petrol then it is delivered to manufacturers in the form of little pellets. plastic. they come out of this. right here. come out of here is now on the

ground and after many years. millions. they call the movements tunes and that having been used these pellets are on their way to the water courses this was so it is still releasing millions every time it rains so this isn't a legal dump of pellets preproduction plastic pellets this is a bag factory these are polyethylene pellets they float in fresh water. these are the pellets from the rail cars that have been washed and blown down to the drain this is the drain that leads to the river these millions of pellets are entering the ocean through those little holes right there you can see pellets on every side of the drain we found two hundred thirty six million of them and three days of sampling these rivers coming down the rivers to the sea just in three days two hundred thirty six million pellets.

chose morrison furious at their plastic waste because you will soon as they didn't have a disappearance. the captain's life changed twelve years ago when he sailed a little used route across the pacific. every time i took the time to survey the ocean i was able to see something in it i even would make a bet with myself i will come out now i will survey the ocean and see nothing but i would lose the bet i would always see something and this gradually made me think something's wrong. when he returned he was intrigued as if there was so much plastic floating around so far from civilization. so he decided to go back and quantify the problem. this was the big shock and this was a very very big surprise we were shocked when we pulled up the net for the first

time i mean that was an aha moment my goodness what have we done that we can just throw a net anywhere in the ocean and all this plastic debris. hi dr mark is here i'm hired by the pacific ocean and middle of nowhere looking for plastic and lots of it. comes in chills move created a foundation called only going to eat and mark as the activists joined him alone with the construe team they've obtained government grants to study this and since then they have kept on filtering the ocean. this place. since. it's a. couple. of years old and. put a little bottle cap. so this is seven hours in the open ocean with a a troll so that's why there's no more no or that's not much area. that's like

it's non human hair fine tired too close to the ocean so bass this much plastic and very small strip that we sampled using our trough. caps and mules some kinds of stud up a planet wide controversy. he discovered the trash vortex and so. trash from the american continent is sucked into the trash for to explain spiral currents of the pacific joining the trash coming from asia. some of the islands and beaches of one are in the direct line of foam of this massive plastic. don't compel a girl is the victim of throughways from all the countries that border the pacific

. we began cleaning this disposal in here in two thousand and three and since that time we've collected over ninety comes crashing just this few miles of coastline. the trash trips with the major ocean covered spiraling ground for at least ten years ending up as a stagnant mass and centrism whose son is still a new. team has established an operating procedure. samples are brought back to land the study. expedition after expedition the extent of the problem is revealed more clearly.

from six hundred seventy one fish that we collected of six different over thirty five percent of them had at least one piece of plastic in their stomach and the reason we want to care about this although these fish might be ugly to some people i think there is orrible and they're also the making food source for animals such as tuna and marking marking and sounding people don't necessarily these fish people eat the fish that feed on these are so proud of all who bunch of more questions and how densely is this going to attract humans down the line. in the middle of the trash book ticks as far as is possible from any inhabited land tools move and his team have discovered even the simplest forms of life struggling to survive in the midst of our trash. jellyfish so turned up they can no longer swim.

even as opened the most basic element of the ocean food chain are affected by these tiny living organisms swallow tiny particles of plastic which get stuck and becoming bedded in their bodies. microscopic life forms but life forms that are already struggling for survival as they become further and further in meshed in our rubbish.

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