Loading ...Some of the most vocal environmentalists I met back in Hawaii were the Surfers! They swim out there, and are the first to find the crap that floats in the ocean. Regular clean-up crews go out to the Midway islands… the NorthWest Hawaiian archipelago… to clean up the reefs entangled with fishing line, ropes, and nets and haul tonnage of waste back to Honolulu. Small chips of floating plastic of all types washes up on the shores out there, at the bird sanctuary islands. The birds, thinking it is food, eat the plastic chips. Now their stomachs are engorged with plastic that they cannot eliminate, and die of starvation.
I stopped using Crest “Pro-Health” tooth gel when I found out it has micro-beads of plastic that does not decompose and is also found floating in ocean water now. Several of the Hawaiian islands have banned plastic grocery bags now, and the ban is coming to Honolulu soon. When these things fly into the ocean, the endangered sea turtles mistake them for jellyfish and ingest them and choke.
Mid-continent people have no idea how much this stuff makes it to the ocean and pollutes it and kills marine life.