I just found out about this "great pacific garbage patch" or "garbage vortex" if you will. Apparently its the size of the continental united states, and its floating in the pacific ocean around Hawaii. Its made up mostly of those plastic shopping bags your bootleg gucci bag came in from canal street or from the grocery store.
ironman's solution: grow it larger, build mcmansions on it, and call it staten island west...
seriously tho, hows this affecting speed demons out west?
Monday, June 02, 2008
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whoa... pretty whack. i certainly haven't noticed any direct affects on oahu as of late (although i did pull a plastic bag out of the water the other day after a sesh, then noticed a sea turtle chillin bout 100 yds over- felt glad i removed the hazard... then worried about the future of our marine life on the island that is increasingly getting suffocated by the tourism factor)-- it's funny that you post this today though, as one of the features in the honolulu advertiser today discusses a new trash program in the works. the plan is to ship 100,000 tons of waste each year from oahu to a washington state landfill. the article quotes that according to the dept of health, oahu residents create an average of 9lbs of trash per person per day... at first this statistic surprised me, but the culture here is über consumeristic- with samoan gas guzzling monster trucks/suv's, big box shopping stores in each zone of the island, and minimal recycling opportunities. i'll have to ask my coast guard marine-observer friend about the prevalence of waste in the waters when he gets back from the deep waters next month. asdfj ksdfah ksdf has sdahgh-- is future waste real estate a potential gold mine?
well, Battery Park City was a landfill from the World trade center exuviation and its high end waterfront real estate. Staten (Italy) island was basically a landfill too, and most of lower manhattan's current waterfront. I'm more concerned if shit is going to start washing up on the shores of your island. Something like trillions of pounds of waste in that garbage patch.
so what I was thinking is, you get some big old oil tankers and convert them into salvage ships. They troll around in the gyre with big collection booms picking up all the plastic, then recycle it right there on the ship. You could even have other ships out there with little factories on them makigg clothes and toys and stuff like Patagonia does with recycled pop bottles.
well, making, not makigg
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