How Much Plastic is in the Ocean?
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Ocean plastic pollution is a massive environmental problem. Millions of tons of plastic waste enter the ocean every year, even plastic that goes in the trash can often ends up in the sea! This week we learn about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and look at the dangers ocean plastic poses to ocean animals. Plus, a few tips for you to reduce your own plastic use!
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Cózar, Andrés, et al. "Plastic debris in the open ocean." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.28 (2014): 10239-10244.
Jamieson, Alan J., et al. "Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in the deepest ocean fauna." Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (2017): 0051.
Jambeck, Jenna R., et al. "Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean." Science 347.6223 (2015): 768-771.
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Can you commit to one plastic-free change in your life? Share it below!
As for me, I'm saying "no thanks" to plastic straws whenever I can.
It's Okay To Be Smart me too
It's Okay To Be Smart Correct me if I'm wrong sir... What's the difference between Reuse & Recycle... ? Aren't they both essentially the same... ?
It's Okay To Be Smart Me too... !
I didn't know Amazon does that! That awesome!!!
Unless you have sensitive teeth and low enamel. In which case a plastic straw makes a difference in your life. Saving you potentially thousands on dental treatments, repair, and eventually implants, or false teeth.
_"Did you know that you can drink with your mouth, and not use a straw? It doesn't suck."_
Pun intended?
*_Succ_*
I LOVE IT 😄😄😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes.
Being passionate about nature sucks in this day and age...
Just use the metal straw that just came out lol
Drinking without a straw, "doesn't suck." I see what you did there.
SUCC
Puns are awesome 😂
Rick Seiden SUCC
When you think you're the only one to catch that silly pun, but then scroll for 2 seconds
Its Asian plastic that is clogging the ocean. Asia uses the ocean as a garbage dump
"Reuse. Think reusable. I mean, it certainly works for Hollywood."
OOOOHHHH SHOTS FIRED XD lmao.
Davanthall he should have said Nintendo instead of Hollywood lol
King Kong is the most recyclable product in Hollywood.
Tong Wol statistically with everyone commenting the odds are higher to meet someone with low subs as the highest comment because most people don't have that much subs
Why is hemp not allowed but usury?
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Tongdagoat Why would you think there's a correlation between subs and comment likes
Plastic is so 1970s
Now everyone knows Vibranium is the coolest
I can't believe no one has mentioned Stanley Spadowski yet. You have no idea how proud I am to have used UHF in this video
Its a good movie man
late but I was also amazed at the lack of "You get to drink from the fire hose!" comments
your audience is kind of way younger than you think
it's been six years.
One day, Kim Kardashian swam in the sea. The amount of plastic in the oceans doubled.
ikr
You dont says
MiYo haha good one
MiYo haha
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Some experts also think that the plastic microbeads in face-washes contribute greatly to this pollution since it goes straight into the water system. So also consider switching to a more "natural" facewash that doesn't use these plastics.
Source: www.independent.co.uk/environment/microplastics-microbeads-ocean-sea-serious-health-risks-united-nations-warns-a7041036.html
Luckily microbeads are quickly being banned in most products!
You mean like soap and a rag?
Hahaha I mean sure that works! I was talking more about the grains or charcoal replacements for microbead exfoliants.
Years ago, companies used ground peach seeds and ground apricot seeds. Plastic is cheaper
Or, wash your face only in plain water, like people have been doing it since eons instead of buying facewash in the plasic container that will be dumped into the landfills/sea. Also, don't buy synthetic clothes because of the microfibers.
I live near Chattanooga and the sides of roads are littered with plastic trash. With heavy rains they are washed away (unseen to most) and the roads look clean again.
Something tells me there is much more plastic in the oceans than most can understand.
I want to watch this video, but it would make me smart and i dont know if that's okay
It wouldn't make you smart. That's the catch with this channel, it tricks you into watching because you think you're smart because of it.
well thats just cruel!
If you're on youtube watching this kind of videos you're probably already smarter than 70% of the population (statistics taken out of my ass).
its ok to be smart
MARKOUT TV I see what u did there 😏😏
I went to the beach for my birthday and totally freaked cuz I thought a dead jellyfish latched on to my leg it was a plastic bag... I get so upset when people leave trash on the beach
Tax the plastic and make it expensive. They no one would buy that.
when britain tryed that on tea a few hundred years ago it didnt go over well
@Earumamaadu It's not just the fact that plastic is being used and thrown away (as if that problem wasn't big already). The process of making plastic in factories realises carbon dioxide.
2 weeks ago I had to write an essay about this exact theme, in English (I'm from Germany). I had to decide between plastic pollution or loss of species. I watched your video about loss of species but wrote about plastic pollution anyway because I studied more for it. :D I like your videos. Keep up the good work!
Thinking about this, after watching the video, I actually could have used the 6 R's in my essay, because we had to write about the topic and then tell how to tackle the problem.
Wow I'm impressed. From a fellow islander(pacific islands) I appreciate the spread of knowledge about plastic. I hope people get the message. Thnx
"You get to drink from... the FIRE HOSE!" UHF, a seriously underappreciated movie.
Another great video. I refuse to take home any extra plastic bags, even if I forget to take my reusable ones to the store.
This video needs to be shared more
I'm living in the UK, and we're pretty bad for plastic, even though we recycle and re-use a lot. I went to Bangkok 3 months ago and was amazed by the amount of plastic they use for everything! If you get a soda in the street, they pour it in a starbucks like plastic cut, with a plastic straw AND in addition to that put the whole thing in a tiny plastic bag with a handle to carry it around. like waaaay to much.
Recycling is a great idea, but we all need to be better informed on what and how to recycle. I used to work for a large aerospace company. It used to break my heart to find a container in a copy room filled halfway with clean white paper, which is worth big bucks, contaminated with two or three discarded lunches. When recycling companies buy paper, they give it a grade. If food and trash is mixed, the value depreciates. We should also lobby our government representatives to give the consumer more options, like glass instead of plastic. Thanks for posting this!
reduce, reuse
refuse, rethink
repair, recycle.
#6R
Keep moving forward a
Are you a turtle lover
i have an app called “OceanHero” (it is a search engine) and for every 5 searches it takes one plastic bottle out of the ocean. oceanhero.today/ this is their website you can watch a video on it here it’s only a 1:28 seconds about.oceanhero.today/how-it-works. Please consider adding it to your browser, it’s free and easy.
the issue is most of us use plastic bags for throwing out our organic waste, it keeps our waste confined to some level, but there are still leaks.
I was put on a pilot to test a new product, Bagez a garbage bag holder. it allows me to secure any size garbage bag in my garbage bins. garbage bags are a better thicker plastic, and if used according to what your local waste facility can sort and separate, it will help in recapture of material to wards new products rather than end up in landfills. with Bagez i have been able to use just 1 bag to hold our family waste, and add more if needed. i buy my own bags and even use it when i'm outdoors. great product, helps reduce plastics are ending up in the dump, and i don't have to worry about dirty bins.
I think I died laughing when you talked about drinking without straws saying "it doesn't suck"
In all seriousness, though, this is important information to have and I hope people who see this will try to reduce how much plastic they have, use, recycle, and toss.
I am 70. When I was a kid people used glass, which can be recycled, to store food in refrigerators. We try to buy reusable, permanent items to replace plastic as much as possible.
I have one word for you...one word, are you listening? polyoxybenzylmethlenglycolanhydride
No one could think of a better way to get rid of the plastic?
A 7th "R" can also be "Repurpose", finding other uses for plastics that would otherwise have been thrown away.
Did you know that they make straws out of glass or durable plastic that you can wash and reuse just like a utensil?
stregadisalem stainless steel ones as well. I currently just use paper straws though
In 1992 a ship sank and released a cargo of what?
Fleet of blue turtles, yellow ducks,
Frogs, red beavers
Where did the cargo go?
Drift in the
Float ashore
Alaska coast
Washington states,
British isles
Great pacific garbage patch
How is plastic broken down?
By sun, waves, curious critters
What is the first synthetic plastic?
To save animals
How many tons of plastic end up in the ocean?
8 mil tons
What are the six Rs?
Reduce buy fewer things
Reuse
Recycle
Rethink
Repair
Refuse
Clip of The Graduate? Liked
"You get to drink from the fire hose!!!" Great use of UHF reference, so many great lines in that movie.
Oh UHF is an old movie starring Weird Al and Kramer. The clip they showed of the kid getting blasted by the fire hose was from that movie.
You guys are AWESOME! shared about your video on my Instagram.
One of my RETHINK is to reuse glass water bottle and having clean water from home to refill it.
Don't forget the geniuses in the cosmetics industry that decided that we should be putting plastic microbeads directly into the waste water stream, in order to feel exfoliated.
foobargorch You can fairly easily avoid those though. Plus its quickly becoming illegal around the world.
Well, many people don't know what it actually is. I certainly had no idea for years, I occasionally bought them when they were on sale. I still can't grasp what kind of sick psychopath comes up with this stuff... =(
Recycling and composting are now mandatory where I live, and I hate plastic packaging anyway, so I've never been very wasteful in that regard. I get nearly everything except food and clothing from Amazon, so that's not an issue. Honestly, it's not that hard to be environmentally friendly. It doesn't cost a lot of money or time (in fact, it often saves both), and it's fun to innovate. I don't mean to preach, but I don't understand why so many people have such a problem with it. We can't suddenly stop impacting the Earth, but we can do our part. Just do what you can, it's not hard.
1:35; longest name ever.
This really makes me want to stop using plastic grocery bags at the supermarket and just get reusable ones.
Scoop of the Crispy it’s easy. But canvas ones if you can. Not the cheap ones they sell at checkout that are -you guessed it- made of plastic.
4:23 "did you know you can drink with your mouth and not use a straw. Try it, it doesn't suck"😂 Get it? straw, suck
Desperately sad about the state of our oceans and the trauma we are causing to animals and the environment, I launched a school wide initiative to collect our dead pens and felts for recycling through TERRACYCLE. I've switched to soap bars from bottled shower gels etc. Wooden toothbrushes for all the family (and gave as gifts to friends for xmas), no more makeup wipes - we are using a cloth and coconut oil now, and of course, full on recycling focus in the home.
I recently invented plastics in Civlization. Spock congratulated me with that exact same phrase.
Ever since I heard the story about the ducks, I have been hoping you would cover it! Thank you, Joe!
If the shops didn't sell "green" veg/fruit bags for damn 80 cents a piece - i would use them.
The paper bags also cost up to 10 times more.
Meats/dairy etc need to be properly packed (gas, sterile) - so cant avoid it there.
Glass bottles are also quite a bit more costly and available in small volumes.
Price is the problem here - until something changes - plastic problem remains.
Thank you for your video. I learned a lot. I might do a video on rubbish and plastic in my country to help teach people here.
in Sri Lanka, 100 million of straw use for one day. am also try to socialize this massage, (#No polythene #No plastic)nice video.
The topic is so serious and the situation so dire but you make it sound unalarming. Saying "no" to a straw whenever you can is not enough! We all can and must do more.
You share good ideas at the end. I hope you take your own advice seriously too. Thank you for speaking on the subject. I suggest you make a follow-up, however.
Reducing consumption doesn't pick up the garbage in the ocean. We need to get out there and PICK IT UP. Preferably by our hands. With all the money that was made in selling plastic products, it can also be used to retrieve them.
Are you a turtle lover
meter of coastline you say? Ever heard of the coastline problem?
INFINITE PLASTIC
plastic fractals :-D
Turns out this channel is not smart. Oh well. It's just another channel made by someone with narcissistic personality disorder. - Never give trophies to losers
Aldo
best comment!
😀
WHY are there only 800,000 views? This is our planet, people!
You can switch to solid soap bar packed in a paper instead of buying the liquid one from the plastic containers. Just one example.
This is why we all need to use hemp bio-degradable plastics! Please do a video about hemp that can be used to replace paper and plastics! People must know about hemp's uses!
I purchased reusable produce bags. I find them much stronger than the cheap thin plastic bags they carry in various grocers.
i seriously didn't know that metal drinking straws were a thing until i looked up alternatives to plastic straws.
Hoàng Trần Minh That honestly sounds like a recipe for disaster. :S You can still use plastic, just get reusable ones, and remember not to throw them away.
There has long been technology for processing contaminated (unwashed), non-sorted plastic garbage into marketable products: euro-pallets, garbage cans and wine boxes, car bumpers, floating berths, boats, road plastic fences. You can not deceive - getting fuel is expensive and harmful!
the UHF reference is gold
big thumbs up for a video with an environmental message that acknowledges that plastic is great and encourages practical, reasonable ways to reduce impact.
Plastic is great of its uses. But far too harmful for the planet. Especially for one time use. Just plastic over plastic and even more, and most of it is not recycled, just new plastic. Which means more and more and more. We got to move back to our old ways. It doesnt need to be as comfortable for us humans. But hey, like humanity will learn....
15 plastic shopping bags for every meter of coastline? Quite an uinformative thing without a resolution of that measurement.
Not sure if I should like it for the way this dude is relating the situation or dislike it because it’s about plastic in the ocean
celluloid was used for billiard balls before bakolite, they were replaced due to the highly flammable nature and they would sometimes explode when playing.
Don't donate clothes randomly. Most of it gets turned away because it invalidates local clothing production where it's distributed. It ends up in the ocean that way.
Only donate clothing to for local uses, when you know there's a need without insane transport costs and a foreign nation that doesn't want it.
4:25 "it doesn't suck". he's trying so hard not to laugh at this own pun :) :)
I am doing a project with my mom to start a plastic recycling factory to reduce plastics in the world by a little but it still counts
I almost choked on my dinner at 3:44. lol
Im not even kidding, I got a plastic pollution ad before this...
thnx this was super useful for my HW
I have a question, what flavor category would burnt food go under?
I always thought the plastic recycling process was horrible for the environment too, because of the gas and chemicals released during the process.
this is the second video about plastic wast I have watched today. the first was Holy F***ing science
Plastic shopping bags are really hard to find in germany these days (its mostly sturdy paper bags now) and I have never seen these plastic can holders
I live in a very popular tourist town on the shores of California. This plastic straw pollution idea is total B.S.! I see 100 times more cigarette butts laying around the streets and beach than plastic straws. What is really sickening is seeing this kind of media b.s. while people are ignorant to the effects of the Fukashima disaster. I have walked this beach almost daily for the last 20 years. I have never seen anything more devastating than the effects of Fukashima. The first to go were the star fish. Then all the little animals that cling to the rocks. The summer followed with millions of birds invading the area looking for food. Then came more whales than I have ever seen here in my life. They die from starvation because there is no krill. The entire fishing industry impacted from Alaska to South America. The government is concerned about plastic straws? What a joke! You people who live inland have no idea the horror that has been laid upon us. Keep believing that plastic is destroying the environment as its already been destroyed and being destroyed because they haven't done squat about Fukashima. Its still burning into the ocean..
The majority of the waste belongs to corporations, not costumers. Let's say every consumer committed to the steps listed above, the world will only be 10 % of where it needs to be in regards to waste.
1:25 That gun must be really hard to aim with that barrel.
Is there any way to remove the plastics from the oceans though? What about molecular machines could they potentially be used to clean up the seas?
It would be cool if some scientists made small organisms that eat plastic or something..... but it seems risky
I guess there's always a risk but I was thinking some kind of micro/molecular submarine that collects all the traces of plastics and disposes of them or breaks them up into something not harmful
There is a fungus and a bacteria that can digest plastic.
Well as far as i know there are certain plastics that can be digested by a certain type of microorganism bred for that specific purpose. It is possible, but the problem is just it would most likely never get rid of all the plastic. We just have to pull the brakes ASAP and really avoid plastic in everyday situations.
Google "The Ocean Cleanup". They're great!
What a great host. Lots of energy and great delivery.
The good thing to know is that at least the water where this is located is miles deep so most animals don't venture here.
Let's add another R. Maybe Redirect? In addition to the individual, aiming these messages at businesses, communities, and policies can have a much larger impact. For example, if an entire restaurant chain stopped using plastic straws - we'd be doing the ocean a tremendous favor.
Mike Likes Science yes. Businesses needs to change but consumers are the huge link in the chain. If we “vote” with our wallets and refuse plastics as well as educate and inform and write legislation then corporations should theoretically change their ways. Btw, McDonald’s in UK just announced they are piloting a paper straw likely because of the petition for them to do so last year was launched. I definitely want that to take over world wide.
With your powers combined, I am captain plastic!
Years ago many stores used to allow you to refill large pop bottles at grocery stores, but we are being so filled with terror on every front these days that it;s almost insane. I'm sure that saved many bottles from ending up where they shouldn't. Also, if you sell bottled water and pop on beaches, it will likely end up in the oceans too. Why not sell it in recyclable paper cups instead? If stores allowed people to refill bottles again but each refillable bottle would cost $50 and no other refillable containers would be permitted, that might help as well, provided no one sold this in regular bottles anymore. The more something costs, the less likely people will throw it into the ocean. the problem is that most of the food today that people purchase in stores (meat products etc.) also comes in plastic. It's a world where people are being literally ENCOURAGED to throw away as much garbage as possible. Seems like 50% of even the non food products today are wrapped in plastic and often even heavy plastic that takes up twice as much space as the product itself. Worse yet, that plastic is often so heavy and so thick that it can literally slice through the skin if not opened right.
Seems that if you put more store products behind glass instead, and hire more clerks to monitor what each customer is taking and has put back, there might not be so much of a loss when you consider massive theft today even when items are wrapped in plastic. Stores might actually break even and employ millions more in the process, allowing millions more also money to purchase things. the computer trend to try to unemploy most of the world's people to save money has backfired in multiple ways and will continue to do so.
The toys that came near the end made me laugh so hard! Lol
Hemp would help tremendously
I am changing my plastic habits started today.
4:48 Boy dat ain't 1 word?!
Still waiting on Joe to turn into Captain Planet....
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Also adding to this plastic can only be recycled once and most companies do not want recycled plastic they want new
It doesn't sucks, it sips.
Nice UFH reference. I'm a bit disappointed no-one else has mentioned it though :(
Here in Europe my monthly garbage is maybe the same as MAYBE half a shoebox. It is so little that I don't even have a trash bin for non recycables and I just go directly to the big bin. We recycle literally everything and shopping bags are very very expensive so everyone uses cloth bags. I now use toothbrushes that are made from eco friendly products. Even the packaging is bio degradable and the box is from recycled paper. I thought I was really making big difference in our planet till I visited Asia and India. Unfortunately there people use plastic and aluminium for everything and they just throw them and they burn them at the landfills. There wasn't a single beach or forest that it wasn't full of plastic. Very very sad!
When you just came back from a tore and bought one of those freshly baked goodies put in plastic box... I fucked up
One of the best videos so far and I've been a subscriber for years! Thank you for such great content!
Thanks!
This is my favorite RUclips channel
4:26 that pun
this was a great video and explained alot to my class
OMG HE DIDN'T SAY "STAY CURIOUS" SO SHOULD I "STAY UNINTERESTED" XD? JK I LOVE YOU
Can you do a video about rivers ?
Awesome and informativ video! You should have ended the video after you said "subscribe"!
Hours ago, I watched this video on the invention of plastic billard balls.
Time to get this video to be watched in all the schools, specially Gringo schools. Great job.
this is so sad that there are animals that are dying
I hope we can move beyond this problem soon. And eventually reducing green house gas emissions for energy needs. We can do it, we just have to make ourselves do so.
share mare this video , the planet need it!
500 Million straws everyday?! That can't be right...
Robert Erwin ok se are about 7.5 billions, I think is possible.
@@almazamaza3718 He did say "in US alone"
How would you filter out those tiny pieces of plastic in the first place? Is it literally impossible?
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