Pollution kills

[Strong]

And here is the proof. Please view the pictures of these albatrosses. Warning! Not a pretty sight!!!

Photo Article: Telegraph - Chris Jordan - Midway

The albatross is such a majestic bird! To see it reduced to a few bottle caps in this way, debases us I think. Surely we are better than this?

[Atom]

Yeah, plastic and water don't seem to mix well at all.

[Atom]

It is actual insanity to dump that stuff in the ocean knowing what we now know about it's effects. I think money can literally drive one insane. I'm thinking money must be the bottom line, I can't think of anything else it could be.

[vectro]

I bet if calculated correctly, businesses would actually save money asking for their plastic cases and bottles back from their customers. Then they can recycle it and re-use it.

[Muddy]

Well, if you can't get rid of the albatross around your neck, at least those would be colorful.

[ewomack]

How freaking awful. Pretty soon we'll find human corpses with little burger wrappers in them... awk...

One depressing thing I've heard recently (maybe this is a repeat) but researchers have apparently found industrial chemicals in the fat of polar bears... polar bears who live in the bloody Arctic... that shows how much we've chemicalized the planet... some say climate change is nothing compared to the problem we have of dispersed chemicals...

[vectro]

Originally Posted by ewomack

some say climate change is nothing compared to the problem we have of dispersed chemicals...

I'd believe it.

[Ferre]

Originally Posted by ewomack

... some say climate change is nothing compared to the problem we have of dispersed chemicals...

I'm one of those people.

[iowadawg]

Cheaper for ships and businesses to dump trash into ocean.
Dump trash on the land.
Just dumping is cheaper than recycling or proper disposal.

Now, how many of you have changed the oil in your vehicle and dumped the oil on land or down the drain?

Or spit on the street?

[Strong]

I'm far more responsible then that! I firmly believe in reusing and recycling where ever possible!

[vectro]

Liquor stores do something that grocery stores should. Liquor stores will take empty bottles that the grocery store doesn't give the deposit back for. They don't give a deposit for it, but they'll take it. Grocery stores could easily take all empties and when Cocacola or any other company comes to do a delivery, they can then take the empties. I'm sure if the math was done, they could figure out a way to spend money on a recycling solution which in the long run would save them some money because they get their materials back.

[MadHatter]

This is only a drop in the bucket compared to the destructiveness of mankind. Take a look at how the coral reefs have deteriorated over the past few decades. Very sad indeed.