Yesterday we watched a documentary ("Tapped") about bottled water and its various ills. It covered the societal problems with water being legally 'stolen' from communities and, according to locals, causing drought conditions. It explained that bottled water is far less regulated and tends to be a bacteria laden cesspool of toxic chemicals. It covered the health problems people living near plastic manufacturing plants suffered from. Finally they covered how the plastic all ends up in the ocean and chokes the ecosystem.
At this point in the show we watched as Captain Charles Moore, an ocean researcher, collected samples of plastic from a beach. Ironically he put the samples into Ziploc bags. The stuff is so pervasive we take it for granted. This guy is a crusader for awareness of the damage that plastic consumption causes the ocean and there he is collecting samples in a bag that will probably end up in a gyre one day and hang out there killing fishes for a few hundred years.
-Miles
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