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more news today bolland says once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are the day. it was the soup of the nor the super good there's this new. project all the way to

know if you come through. your door shocking you open for. just you is the first place to cold in the stomach of the if you translate it to human body size this will be there for each 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 in five minutes what you see here is what six people would consume in a 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 los 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 civic ocean the purpose of this boat is to get attention and get politicians get other schoolteachers get the public to look at us and listen to our shores. listening to marcus and emma stories like being in most of 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 often on 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 let plastic colonize the sea. on the surface. a few meters down. and at the depths of one thousand meters. was 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 sort of stuff will be around for a few hundred years and have his you kind of loser dreams when you go really deep

in the for the one thousand meters for instance it was the 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 tree and. the ocean's being stuffed with plastic. or force feeding them. but there's something we haven't thought of. the count digestive. nets are full and there's nothing miraculous about catch. this material has revolutionised long lines today because of my crohn's. 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 testing will tell you all is bringing to the society to the quality of life you are convinced that testicle 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 would be existing the resources for the planet who would steal everything that planets with 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 to the desert to one of the aircraft boneyard or pick up the 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 plastic for fifteen years he's been counseling along america's rivers he's seen the pollution growth and it keeps coming. one day mark has had a dream that the whole world would care about the problem he hopes to mobilize the planet but so you can see is in an old airplane cabin sitting on fifteen thousand

plastic bottles. with the energy of someone who's determined to change the world he's setting out from two thousand five hundred mile trip of the oh gosh. so this is. over a thousand people who are 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 and try to get something done about this plastics issue. that's right after the bottle. 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 we've chosen the entire california coast to help undernourished the sick and. over the years they've had to learn to deal with new kinds of wounds. there definitely are crazy animals admitted to our facility with panda. we have. this in mind that was attached to her but came out of an elephant seals we have a big black bear and that was wrapped around a sea lions neck we have. monofilament high that was wrapped around his here i am packers well inside of it now and then we have a law strap and string that was found wrapped around a badly by first the elder actually endangered species so it's very much of a concern. loss next don't stop fishing.

there have been cases of strangulation in the whole of the species of seals and sea lions. eighty species of whales have suffered incidents with plastic. plastic khamenei kill. and also suffocate. although the volunteers of the marine mammal center managed to save dozens of animals every year a 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 is going to grow some more and that is why women won't as after a while it could end up strangling her or stop her from being able to eat for

a lot of five plastic i can stand in the sea come from what we threw away and. here are some of the first collateral beacons three hundred marine species of victims of plastic. twenty years ago younger in front of her adult sea bird specialist started an experiment on foreman's a common species in northern europe. he wanted to know what the h. . a completely straightforward investigation. but its results were big surprise i look at fulmar simplistic more or less by accident because in the early one nine 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 invested in

place that's. the first time i realized it was placed it in a bit of stomach it was. amazement. john has alerted his european colleagues. he's determined in europe how many full moons are affected. is received and analysed three thousand goods found beached along the coastline of eight countries. to firm niland royalties green bit this pieces of plastic still wear and dirty ninety five percent of these birds flying dustin's there's also lots of fragments of broken plastic items in here this. at least seven industrial plastic granules ok what their fear is the efforts plus the content of a full moon in the southern north sea so if you translate it to human size. this is

what the average in a stomach and so in that case there's no need to discuss 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 dart of half the species of c b s. thanks to the use of plastics we protect the planet and we protect the climate evolution is well if you would have to replace the best by getting most of them until you then you would have to multiply the the weight of the bank if you buy for 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 have to use to our advantage short term advantage but now we're finding out just polluting our world and really i can feel that it's going to impact the next generation my kids are feeling it so i feel like. obligated to do something obligation knowing something's wrong you can't do nothing otherwise you're on your accomplice. in the mansion twenty as an english peer at an outlandish but particularly far sighted idea. he fitted

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 plant 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. occurred to us that one of its catching planktonic organisms and maybe it's gotten small pieces of plastic at the same time so we went back through historic samples we sampled from the ninety six days there on the seventy's the eighty's and ninety's and then can add abundance through time and that's where we we showed that adding prices never coming 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 smaller bits over time so even if we start producing plastics tomorrow which is not something i would advocate because i actually think plastics can bring many benefits to society but even if we did the legacy of the plastics

that we produced there fragmentation would continue for many decades and centuries to calm. the markets 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 struggle to start and get some attention. there's a steady trend of creasing plastic it's growing exponentially sort of the purpose of this is to get the world to where it is no 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 habitats 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 that can be measured in microns finer than

a human. and used food 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 with the result of the freak you filmed on a particular plymouth beach so he analyzed the sound of ten other british creatures when 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 temporary are now covering the ocean surface down in the deep sea there but the fact that they chose worldwide are now contaminated with small fragments of plastic was actually quite surprising to me and i expected that maybe as we move to more remote places then perhaps we

wouldn't find any plastics at this this microscopic scale but in fact we have. people are thinking that plastics are polluting and because they are totally ignoring the an enormous amount of the benefits benefits that you get from the president material night means less consumption it's a truck if you have light lighter vehicles then automatically the consumption is very slow or one hundred kilo less for a car is a zero point three liter per hundred kilometer. captain charles moore is fed up of seeing the oceans used as a dumping ground. he traces do through your plastic back to the origin. of both before becoming a. blister pack plastic comes from petrol then it is delivered to manufacturers in

the form of little pellets. they come out of this. right here. they come out of here as well on the ground and after many years. billions in the night they call them of means tunes and that having been used through theme 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 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 in three days of sampling these rivers coming down the rivers to the sea just in three days two hundred thirty six million gallons. chose more reason furia to buy plastic waste because you will soon as that it never disappears. 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 and i would lose the bet i would always see something and this gradually made me think something is wrong. when he returned he was intrigued to 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 shows move created a foundation called on going to eat or markers the activists joined him alone with a considerably team we've obtained government groups to study this area since 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 fair trial so that's why there's a lot lower that's not much area. that's right for the its own human hair my entire football field the ocean is so bad this much plastic and very small strip that we sample is a virtual. captain moves samples of stirred up a planet wide controversy. he discovered to trash the optics and sold out. trash from the american continent is sucked into the trash for to exploit spiner i mean currents of the north pacific joining the trash coming from asia. some of the islands and beaches of one who are in the direct line of the phone of

this massive plastic. don't you going to go is the victim of through wage from all the countries the border the pacific. we began cleaning this this post line here in two thousand and three and since that time we've collected over ninety tons of trash just a few miles it goes like. the trash drips with a major ocean currents spiraling down for at least ten years only ending up as a start and centrism who sometimes is still a. team

was established in operating procedure. samples are brought back to them to be studied. expedition after expedition and 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 at least one piece of plastic in their stomach and the reason we want to care about this although the space might be ugly to some people i think there is orrible and there also the making food source for animals such as tuna and maki maki and sounding people don't necessarily it's fish people eat the fish that feed on these are so proud of all who have more questions and how eventually is this going to affect humans down the line. in the middle of the

trash looks as far as is possible from any inhabited land. and his team have discovered even the simplest forms of life struggling to survive in the midst of our trash. jellyfish so trying to go up because 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 become in bedded in their bodies. microscopic life forms but life forms that are already struggling for survival as they become further and further in michigan on a rubbish. guitar

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