our trash beat us to bottom of oceans

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Researcher exploring the deepest parts of the oceans are finding that our trash got down there before human beings did. We have trashed the moon, are littering the solar system and stratosphere, our landscapes, other than tourist arenas and other places reserved for profiteering, look like a general sea of garbage, and here we are constantly accusing each other of destroying the financial of coming generations. I think our priorities are misplaced. From what I can see, future generations are not going to be able to breathe without artificial assistance and will be eating a steady diet of chemical poison, let alone our water resources being eroded and depleted. I think having a dime to buy an ice cream come in 2050 should be at the bottom of the barrel on our humanity priority list.


http://www.iflscience.com/environment/o ... s-ocean-us

It ain't my trash.

I'm not really all that stunned that a tin can can survive places that a person can't.

Perhaps the great Cthulhu will simply choke on plastic before he reaches us.

Some of these objects I can understand how they got down to those depths but 41% of our crap found at the deepest levels of the ocean being plastic is hard to grasp. The fact that we are doing this to ourselves despite everything we already know about our fragile environment (despite the protest of the myriad platoons of deniers), is disappointing. When I was growing up we paid attention to signs that warned about littering along streets and highways. I wouldn't even think of dropping a small corner of a wrapper of a candy bar on the ground even now. I don't at what point in time our society lost its love affair with our planet, but I really dislike what my eyes and other senses experience on this planet now.

We really are burning our bridges with this planet. Poisoning it like we poison ourselves.

Doesnt suprise me that plastic ends up at the bottom of our oceans,most of it is denser than water.natural trash doesn't bother me as much as it will decompose rather harmlessly (metal,cotton,wool for example) its the plastic that bothers me.i have also seen tv reports of under water tire dumps that were giving off chemicals,they were cleaning up some of them.

This is my first attempt to link.i hope it works
National geographic

[Moderator edit: I edited the URL to remove the additional "http" at the start, so it now works. You only need one. ]

It said server not found, but I understand what you are getting at

I guess it didn't.its a national geographic article of how plastic decomposes a lot faster than we thought and the chemicals that it gives off

Not only that,there are a lot of chemicals given off in the production of plastics as well

Sanjay gupta's toxic america is a good report on this.also toxic childhood is an other good one.
Its disgusting what governments will allow companies to pump into our air

I'm guessing that when harbours were being built in the 19th century and canals were being dredged then river sediment and wood and ceramics from ships and other assorted rubbish were being dumped into the deeper parts of the ocean well before lolly wrappers and coke bottles.

The odds of making sure nothing else gets down there though is impossible. Everything we made, the metals, the plastics, the glass and paper, came from the earth. We have done so much damage that if everyone stopped making plastics right now, the ocean would still be screwed for a few million years. The earth will rebirth itself and it will be fine. It's on us though. We ruined it so we don't get to enjoy it.

At some point, I would like to see a live giant or colossal squid in its natural habitat, and not having Pepsi bottles floating around would help that goal out immensely.

Our trash will also beat us into deep space.

voyager is not considered trash yet and it has left the solar system so until a few more years when it finally dies its not trash yet

Just wait till it makes it return trip as V'ger.

^ thats a good one