Wreckage from Japans tsunami last year is going to start reaching the shores of North America a lot sooner that originally expected. This debris is reaching shore a lot sooner than expected. The lighter things like oil drums and buoys reached the shores in November and December while the rest is expected to arrive by may. The problem is 95% of the debris will never reach the shore, but get swept up in what is called the North Pacific garbage patch. I think ships should get sent out to the garbage patch to clean up. I don't even want to think about how much garbage is floating around in our oceans, but I think we need to do all we can to clean it up.
Cool things found! (not part of blog) : Container with Harley Davidson motorcycle and golf clubs, 160ft fishing boat, and a football found in Alaska which was traced back to its owner.
I agree because a lot of stuff was lost in that tsunami and if some of that stuff doesn't make it to shore then it will heart our oceans later. We can't stop natural disasters but we can prevent our environment from getting destroyed by picking up the garbage after one occurs.
ReplyDeleteIt's terrible that no one has even bothered to start a cleanup on this garbage patch. Pollutants and other tax ins can leak into the water and cause major problems if something doesn't happen soon. This should be a main priority after disasters happen to prevent more terrible things.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is really dumb that with all of the "environmentalists" we have nowadays that not one of them has even attempted to start a clean up. People need to start taking some initiative and get working on this clean up because all of the debris is going to destroy the environment plus some people could find some really cool stuff in the debris.
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