Month: August 2009

Fascinating documentary about the huge amount of plastic floating about the oceans. There’s a point in the pacific where currents bring all the pollution together and the number of parts of plastic per parts of water is dangerously high. Whilst there’s no actual floating island, that you can see, its because the plastic has broken down into so many small parts and as one of the crew say, its not the coke bottle you see, but the millions of particles that make up that coke bottle that have been dispersed through the ocean. Some amazing bits, for instance, they find few orange or red plastic particles, because these are what the fish eat…and we eat the fish.

This is part 1 of 3, head to the VBS site for more – an exciting channel, with some great content.