Bali: Diver films himself swimming in a sea of rubbish (VIDEO)

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Bali: Diver films himself swimming in a sea of rubbish (VIDEO)

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A British diver films himself swimming through a slick of plastic rubbish brought by ocean currents off the coast of Bali.
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Surely they could clean that up with a couple of fishing boats dragging a net between them.
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Sad end for whale in Thailand after it swallowed 80 plastic bags
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 03 June, 2018, 2:02pm
A whale has died in southern Thailand after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags, officials said, ending an attempted rescue that failed to nurse the mammal back to health.

Thailand is one of the world’s largest consumers of plastic bags, which kill hundreds of marine creatures living near the country’s popular beaches each year.

The small male pilot whale became the latest victim after it was found barely alive in a canal near the border with Malaysia, the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources said on their Facebook page Saturday.

A veterinary team tried “to help stabilise its illness but finally the whale died” on Friday afternoon, the post said.

An autopsy revealed 80 plastic bags weighing up to eight kilograms (18 pounds) in the creature’s stomach, the department added. The whale vomited up five bags during the rescue attempt before it died, the department said.

Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a marine biologist and lecturer at Kasetsart University, said the bags had made it impossible for the whale to eat any nutritional food. “If you have 80 plastic bags in your stomach, you die,” he said.
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Username Taken wrote: Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:50 pm Surely they could clean that up with a couple of fishing boats dragging a net between them.
That's a good idea in theory, but I think you would find that the ultraviolet rays have made a lot of the plastic very brittle a they would just break up into smaller pieces and slip through the net. And those bits caught by the net ?????? What a shit of a job cleaning the net,,,,, only those that have used nets for fishing in seaweed waters would know about that.
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Duncan wrote: Sun Jun 03, 2018 4:20 pm
Username Taken wrote: Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:50 pm Surely they could clean that up with a couple of fishing boats dragging a net between them.
That's a good idea in theory, but I think you would find that the ultraviolet rays have made a lot of the plastic very brittle a they would just break up into smaller pieces and slip through the net. And those bits caught by the net ?????? What a shit of a job cleaning the net,,,,, only those that have used nets for fishing in seaweed waters would know about that.
And who pays for it? The Indonesian government isn't exactly known for it's willingness to support environmental initiatives.
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This is mostoy due to ignorance of south eadt asian people, even if educated about pollution they wont change there ways, they just lack morals in general.
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Nano tech to the rescue one day, I think.
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Duncan wrote: Sun Jun 03, 2018 4:20 pm
Username Taken wrote: Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:50 pm Surely they could clean that up with a couple of fishing boats dragging a net between them.
That's a good idea in theory, but I think you would find that the ultraviolet rays have made a lot of the plastic very brittle a they would just break up into smaller pieces and slip through the net. And those bits caught by the net ?????? What a shit of a job cleaning the net,,,,, only those that have used nets for fishing in seaweed waters would know about that.
plus theres fish swimming about in the waters too that would get caught up in it all :sorry:
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Maritime authorities in Australia have issued an alert after 83 shipping containers fell from a vessel off the coast of New South Wales.

Sanitary products, surgical masks and nappies have begun washing up on beaches north of Sydney.

There are concerns the items could prove dangerous to whales and other animals if they swallow them.

The containers tumbled off a Taiwanese-owned ship in a heavy swell in the Tasman Sea on Thursday.

Video showed some containers split open and hanging from the ship. Thirty were damaged.

Some partly submerged containers pose a threat to leisure boats and commercial shipping.

"They're 40-ft containers, they sit about a foot or two off the water. Even in the best of conditions they're difficult to spot, but at night and in a swell, almost impossible," Roads and Maritime Services executive director Angus Mitchell said.

The vessel, Liberia-registered YM Efficiency, was en route from Taiwan to Port Botany when it encountered the five-metre swell.
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May 28, 2018
EU moves to ban single-use plastics
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission on Monday proposed banning single-use plastic products such as cotton buds and plastic straws and putting the burden of cleaning up waste on manufacturers in an effort to reduce marine litter.

Under the proposal, single-use plastic products with readily available alternatives will be banned and replaced with more environmentally sustainable materials.

The proposal also requires EU countries to collect 90 percent of single-use plastic drink bottles by 2025 and producers to help cover costs of waste management and clean-up.

“Plastic waste is undeniably a big issue and Europeans need to act together to tackle this problem, because plastic waste ends up in our air, our soil, our oceans, and in our food,” said EU Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans.

Plastic accumulating in the world’s oceans has become a major policy issue for governments, with scientists warning of their effect on the food chain.
Research published in the online journal Scientific Reports estimates a garbage patch of some 79,000 metric tonnes - 1.8 trillion pieces - of plastic has formed in the Pacific Ocean, mainly consisting of fishing nets, plastic containers, packaging and ropes.
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