Fiji - another India?
? MSM Conspiracy Theory ?
Been watching cases steadily rising over last two weeks. Anyone hearing anything?
I did not know that - I'd seen images of floating garbage and assume it was that thing...what do they call it? The gyre or something?
Over the years, they've tried to use images of garbage-strewn beaches from the Philippines or Indonesia and pass it off as the middle of the Pacific. They'd crop out the shoreline and the kids playing with the bottles in the sand. But these days you can easily reverse-image search everything and find the source photos and articles from years before.
Now you'll never believe what they say and people still buy it, here's an example headline: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Virtually Invisible. That’s a Problem. This is despite years of saying it's a physical thing, and as you pointed out, they've already attempted to show us the phony pictures of it. But now it's mystically already been broken down into tiny plastic particles. So why then do we ban straws if they break down in the water after a few years? They say plastic debris remains for centuries. It's just endless back and forth nonsense.
I went and looked up images of the supposed "Gyre" and found that too - images with the shoreline cropped out. Obvious because the next pic would be the same WITH the shoreline.
There's an Aussie guy who has a gardening YouTube channel, and he's done things like bury all KINDS of materials in the garden just to see how long it takes to break down. Almost everything disintegrates in a matter of months, not years. I've seen plastic fall apart - everyone has - just from age. So that whole thing about lasting centuries is just silly.
When I was a kid, I used to dig holes in my back yard, and do general exploring around. I found where buried pieces of styrofoam turned to dust. The micro-biological world has so many species of various things that there is probably a species that can do anything we want if isolated.
I guarantee you a plastic water bottle does not take mere months to break down. Whatever you saw otherwise may have misled you.
I'd say it depends on the composition of the plastic. Not all compounds are equal.
Because the “few years” that the straws accumulate in the water is a bad thing