Someone please make this video short
Close in, scene one, tight on the whale ordering Calamari from the shrimp waiter in a fancy restaurant.
Scene two, kitchen, lobster chef preparing calamari puts a generous clawful of shredded waster plastic into the meal before it's sent out.
Scene three, wide pan of restaurant as waiter serves the calamari and we see various deep sea fish, turtles, whales, even a giant squid, resolutely crunching down the plastic in their dinners.
Scene four, quick illustration and explanation of the pacific gyre plastic continent and "please help us solve it."
The point, in case you missed it, is to show that the plastic coming from our culture is causing a big problem. It's a bit of knowlege that the whole world needs, not just "the west" and this short could easily translate around the world.
Ok, just in case someone reading doesn't know about the great Pacific Gyre. It's a quiet zone where the currents swirl by and debris floating thereon collects like a backwater on a creek. It's very large, bigger than australia I think, and thoroughly contaminated with plastic of all sizes, from chunks of bottle and bottle caps down to the fibers from laundry and the nurdles used in plastics manufacturing.
With it's wide range of densities and sizes it inhabits the whole upper zone of the sea where plankton hang out. It doesn't protect the plankton because their feeders are filter feeders. The baleen whale, for instance, takes in a dumptruck's worth of water and squishes it out between his "teeth" which are in fact giant feathery filters. The stuff left behind is swallowed, plastic and all.
Turtles, they love jelly fish which float around where plastic grocery bags float. Well the jelly fish don't exactly have a lot of flavour either I guess because the turtles are chewing up and swallowing the bags too! All kinds of sea life is impacted by the plastic stew.
Solutions will include better filtration on outflows to catch the laundry fibers. Better redirection from waste dumps to recyling, and more biodegradable plastics like the stuff in my 3d printer.
So now you know, so quit buying polyester and acrylic fabrics if you can help it. If you have the power, please help to get changes made that will help.
Scene two, kitchen, lobster chef preparing calamari puts a generous clawful of shredded waster plastic into the meal before it's sent out.
Scene three, wide pan of restaurant as waiter serves the calamari and we see various deep sea fish, turtles, whales, even a giant squid, resolutely crunching down the plastic in their dinners.
Scene four, quick illustration and explanation of the pacific gyre plastic continent and "please help us solve it."
The point, in case you missed it, is to show that the plastic coming from our culture is causing a big problem. It's a bit of knowlege that the whole world needs, not just "the west" and this short could easily translate around the world.
Ok, just in case someone reading doesn't know about the great Pacific Gyre. It's a quiet zone where the currents swirl by and debris floating thereon collects like a backwater on a creek. It's very large, bigger than australia I think, and thoroughly contaminated with plastic of all sizes, from chunks of bottle and bottle caps down to the fibers from laundry and the nurdles used in plastics manufacturing.
With it's wide range of densities and sizes it inhabits the whole upper zone of the sea where plankton hang out. It doesn't protect the plankton because their feeders are filter feeders. The baleen whale, for instance, takes in a dumptruck's worth of water and squishes it out between his "teeth" which are in fact giant feathery filters. The stuff left behind is swallowed, plastic and all.
Turtles, they love jelly fish which float around where plastic grocery bags float. Well the jelly fish don't exactly have a lot of flavour either I guess because the turtles are chewing up and swallowing the bags too! All kinds of sea life is impacted by the plastic stew.
Solutions will include better filtration on outflows to catch the laundry fibers. Better redirection from waste dumps to recyling, and more biodegradable plastics like the stuff in my 3d printer.
So now you know, so quit buying polyester and acrylic fabrics if you can help it. If you have the power, please help to get changes made that will help.