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• Report on plastic trash in the ocean
  • A friend and I were talking yesterday about the ''Great Pacific Garbage Patch'
    • Trash in the Keys
  • It hurts
  • How many here still use plastic shopping bags?
    • Maine is basically trying to either outlaw them or...
      • We Have Cut Way Down on Their Use ...
        • So DBM, how do you dispose of trash?
          • Ever heard of this guy in LA? 365 Days of Trash --kept all his trash and recycling for a year in his basement!
            • We have folk like that around here too -- 'cept they don't have basements
          • Honey I AM Trash ...
            • No big deal, we also use those old trees for toilet paper.
      • I can't say I don't use plastic bags at all
    • we use them
    • We're trying to phase them out. We're slow learners.
    • We prefer them
    • We like to ask for double bags.
  • How to dispose of trash?
    • We were taught something similar years ago in the Bahamas
      • I was told by a marine scientist *not* to break up glass or crush cans...
        • Doesn't that make them dependent on humans?
          • I'll have to get back to you on that; I'm busy feeding some Starlings
            • Starlings are quite tasty. Bit small but..four and twenty in a pie is about right.
    • Greg, where did U store the boat !
      • We have....
        • I was not sure which side of the Sea she was stored!
          • SURE GLAD to. see
  • Amount of trash we generate....
    • But Al, Ziplocs are made of ...
      • I know its a evil rotten cycle but we
  • I would like to suggest....