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it was because to book the normal super good there's the soup. project always but you know if you come through the. door will sharpen your local public. just is the first place to go to in the stomach over the if you translate it to human body size this will be their fridge 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 also angeles behind me is compton 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

pacific ocean the purpose of this boat is to to get attention and get politicians get their schoolteachers get the public to look at us and listen to our story. listening to mark as an am a story is like being immersed in the planet's 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 unidentifiable drifting objects. we're really the third generation to make massive use of plastic. all this is the result of sixty years of consumption.

we've let plastic colonize the scene. on the surface. a few meters down. and at the depths of one thousand meters. is all of this material will be down here for ages especially where it's really deep there's much less oxygen and no light whatsoever i mean those are factors which help break down the plastic sort of stuff will be around for a few hundred years and have his you kind of lose your dreams when you go really deep 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 that was that was just so much as a trillion of. the oceans being stuffed with plastic. with force feeding them. but there's something we haven't thought.

can't digest. the next a fool and there's nothing miraculous about catch. this material because revolutionaries don't lives today because it won't cross. what happens to plastic once it's in the ocean is brilliant as we've always been told doesn't really have no effects on animals or humans. mission is one of the thinking heads of a professional cynic. once you are in and you realize all the benefits that this list of material 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 vendors at all as is providing quite a lot of marvelous things if lest it would not be existing the resources for the planet who would this deal everything that planet we live on would be totally exhausted it's thanks to the plastic which has been invented in this really speaking in the fifty's we have been able to produce so much material some of the products that we use every day. but you just came back from a drive out in the desert one of the aircraft boneyard i would pick 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 a door is intact the windows are intact waterproof but will make it waterproof. marcus erikson is a dedicated militant against plastic for fifteen years he's been catalina long america's rivers he seemed pollution growth and it keeps going. one day marcus had a dream so the whole world would care about the problem he hopes to mobilize the planet points so you can see is in an old airplane encountered 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 of the local elections.

so this is. over a thousand people school clear across the country and chicago has given us messages about the ocean and about plastics which we're going to take across the ocean and bring back and share it with policymakers and try to get something done about this process issue. that's right after the vote. this is the marine mammal center one of the biggest organizations of its time. for thirty five years one thousand volunteers have constantly surveyed the beaches and winters of the entire time a former toast to help undernourished was sick and. over the years they've had to learn to deal with new kinds of foods. their death i am raising animals admitted to our facility with banta. we have. this online ad

that was attached to her that came out of an elephant seals we have a thick black bear and that was wrapped around the sea lions and now we have. monofilament guy that was wrapped around his the i am back as well and inside of it now and then we have a strap and string that was found wrapped around a bottle of it first the elder actually an endangered species so it's very much of a concern. last night stone stopped fishing. there have been traces of strangulation in the whole of the species of seals and sea times. each species of whales have suffered in incidents with plastic. plastic khamenei pill. and also suffocate.

the local volunteers of the marine mammal center managed 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 female she's going to grow some more and that won't and after a while it could end up strangling her or stop her from being able to eat for a lot of farms plastic items found in the sea come from what we threw away and. here are some of the first collateral victims three hundred marine species of victims of plastic.

twenty years ago young i'm from adult siebert specialist started an experiment on foreman's a common species in northern europe. he wanted to know what they ate. a completely straightforward investigation. but its results were a big surprise i look at home a simplistic more or less by accident because in the early one nine hundred eighty s. i found more blessed states and at that time staff i didn't know it all in in the stomachs which later proved to be industrial place that's. the first time i realized there was a place that in a bit of stomach it was. a mason and. john has alerted his european colleagues. is determines knew how many films are affected. is received and emulous three thousand birds found beached along the

coastline of eight countries there's a piece of firm island why it is green bit this pieces of plastic they're still with and dirty ninety five percent of these birds flying just means there's all sorts of fragments of broken oppressed items and here this. at least seven industrial plastic granules ok what their fear is the efforts to content of a full moon in the certain north sea so if in terms later to humans eyes. this is will be there for each in the stomach and so in that case there's no need to discus with this a little bit for you we agree that this is not elsie. according to the united nations plastic is now part of the dogs of heart the species of c b s . that. thanks to

the use of plastics we protect the planet and we protect the climate evolution is where you would have to replace the person getting back on them until you then you would have to milton apply the the weight of the because you buy for the price of the packaging by two and the amount of raised by one point six. fifteen plastic. marcus and his friend joe are sailing the 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. you can affect some policy. it's a policy to help curb the exploitation of. a synthetic chemicals that we have to use to our advantage short term advantage but now we're finding out just polluting

our world and really i could feel that it's going to impact the next generation my kids are going to feel it so i feel like. obligated to tell you something it's an obligation knowing something's wrong you can't do nothing otherwise you're up to your accomplice. in the mansion twenty is an english theatre and not blandish but particularly far sighted idea. and fitted a number of ships which regularly followed the same north european shipping lanes with a strange device. thank you it was a record chips i've been telling them every month ever since. 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 of planting that 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. code two is that one of it's catching planktonic organisms maybe it's catching small pieces of plastic at the same time so we went back through historic samples

we sampled from the one nine hundred sixty s. the ones the seventy's the eighty's in the 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 thousand nine hundred 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 and 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 is 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 he 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 to where it is both talk about solutions what do we do about this issue. well marcus 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 determined by plastics. i was just interested world this is a plastics that are forming by the breakdown of large bases or what is the smallest piece of plastic present on the beach that was the challenger set to two of my graduate students just a little over ten years ago. richard has found fragments of plastic that can be measured in microns fundamentally human. and he has found huge quantities of them. of 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

then he checked all stars in 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 their brain now covering the ocean surface down in the deep sea bad but the fact that they chose worldwide and now contaminated with small fragments of plastic was actually quite surprising to me and i expected that by the as we move to more remote places that perhaps we wouldn't find any plastics at this this microscopic scale but in fact we have. people are thinking that plastics are producing and because they are totally ignoring the an enormous amount of the benefits benefits that you get from the plastic material might means less consumption etc if you have the light light of

the calls then automatically the consumption is very slow or i want to look a little less for a car is zero point three liter per hundred kilometer. captain charles moore is fed up of seeing the oceans used as a dumping ground. he drew says the few view of plastic back to the origin. of birds before becoming a bottle of blister pack plastic comes from pension then it is delivered to manufacturers and it forms little pellets. plastic. they come out of this. right here just like there is now on the ground and after many years. millions.

they call the movements tunes and that having been used for anything these pellets are on their way to the water courses this facility is still releasing millions every time it rains so this is an illegal dump of pellets preproduction plastic pellets this is a bag factory these are polyethylene products 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. jones movies infuriated by plastic waste because you will so there's that it never

disappears. the captain's life changed twelve years ago when he sounds 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 serve in the ocean and see nothing and 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 hold this kind of plastic debris out. 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 charles move created a foundation called on going to eat and. mark as the octopus joins him alone with a constructing a team they've obtained government groups to study this area since then they have kept on filtering the ocean. this place. since. it's a. couple. of years old and. put up a little bottle cap. so this is seven hours in the open ocean with a troll so that's why there's no more no or that's not much area. that's like

the it's not human hair my entire football field the ocean so vast this much plastic and very small strip deli sandwiches of our truck. captain will samples of stead of a planet wide controversy. he discovers the trash vortex into. trash from the american continent is sucked into the trash for to exploit styrene currents of the pacific joining the trash coming from asia. some of the islands and beaches of one are in the direct line of this massive plastic. don't until a goat is the victim of throughways from all the countries that border the pacific .

we began cleaning this this coastline here in two thousand and three and since that time we collected over ninety cars trash just this few miles of coastline. the trash of some of the major ocean currents spiralling round for at least ten years. as a stagnant mass. who sometimes is still a. team was established in operating procedure. samples are brought back to land to be studied. expedition after expedition the extent of the problem is revealed more clearly.

from six hundred seventy one fish that we collected of six different species 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 they're adorable and they're also the missing food source for animals such as tuna and maki maki and sound people don't necessarily these people eat the fish that feed on these so it brought about who have more questions and how densely is this going to affect humans down the line. in the middle of the trash talk text as far as is possible from any inhabited land. and his team have discovered even the simplest forms of life struggling to some point in the midst of our trash. jellyfish so turned out they can no longer swim.

even as though plankton 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 come further and further in meshed in our rubbish.

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