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ZapRoot 029 | Yummy Plastic Soup

Comments

  • Ghost (guest) wrote on March 20, 3:11 pm

    This was a pretty cool episode

  • GreenFiend (guest) wrote on March 20, 3:11 pm

    This is increasingly worrying

  • ohmygoodness (guest) wrote on March 20, 3:14 pm

    Wow, gross. What is wrong with our world... wake up. Thanks Zaproot.

  • -_- (guest) wrote on March 23, 3:16 am

    holy smokes thats scary, can you imagine if you fell in that, that would be a horrible death, them poor animals. So why are we still using plastic???!?!?!?!?!*god im mad* I wish some politicians watched this show,
    lmao*jessica was so funny when she threw the controller-YOU F****R! SO FUNNY, BTW THAT POWER UP GAME TOTALLY BAD!!! i'm afraid to play the others because power up was like over 100megs and so I rather stay out of fire and not get burned twice-it was a good suggestion though, would be cool if they had some REAL cool games that actually taught you stuff that you should know-my god they should just teach us with the games and screw the school system, think about it---cheaper, more fun, and you actually learn woo *high five*
    my2cents

  • keple wrote on March 23, 11:34 am

    You know, I thought we SWITCHED to plastics to be environmentally friendly. You know that whole "stop using paper, we're destroying the rain forest" thing? Well now our paper consumption has more-or-less plateaued and now we're trying to stop using plastics. I really don't know that plastics would be so bad if we were a bit more pro-active on the whole recycling front and made sure these things went where they were supposed to go rather than into land fills and shipped god only knows where (well... apparently they're shipped into the middle of the ocean and left there). I think we should start changing our habits a bit more than changing what materials we use. Think about it - if we didn't waste so much we wouldn't have gone from paper to plastic (we switched to plastic 'cause we can recycle it easily) and we wouldn't have started a war against plastics if the waste we produced we recycled rather than littering and throwing in the trash. Apparently what this world needs are materials that are both easily renewable/recyclable/cheap and also biodegradable... can we find something that fits the bill or should we just start curbing our appetites?
    Maybe they'll have a new game like Fat World but for people who waste and litter? :oþ "Can you keep your planet healthy for 100 years or will you let it die?" :oþ

  • Kat (guest) wrote in reply on April 1, 8:02 pm

    actually, its not just our habits. recycling helps but plastic cannot be completely recycled, only some of it can, so the rest is thrown out. also, the production and recycling of plastic emits huuuge quantities of greenhouse gases causing global warming. the breakdown of plastic emits chemicals that get into the air/water/soil and contaminates anything used from it. :(

  • -_- (guest) wrote on March 23, 8:03 pm

    Yah you have a point keple, but also we could use them cloth bags that you take with you to the store instead of using plastic or paper, that sorta fits the bill right? If only everyone did that, I think that could help a lot.

  • blah (guest) wrote on March 25, 10:10 pm

    THERE IS NO BIG DUCK SHAME ON YOU!!

About This Video

The Gyre is a swirling vortex of trash in the Pacific and we have some expert in to talk about it. We also cover some green video games.

Algalita Marine Research Foundation
Power Up
IBM
Food Force
CO2FX
Adventure Ecology
Steer Madness
Glupod
Fatworld

Thanks to Joshua Lefkowitz for suggesting green games.

Tags : green, plastic, nike, gyre, pacific garbage patch, rubber duck, algalita.org, fatworld