WORLD PREMIER of 'Aqua Seafoam Shame' (Directors Cut) in Hawaii

Surfer [the bar] at Turtle Bay Resort in Hawaii will be screening the official 'Aqua Seafoam Shame - Directors Cut' this Friday May 31, 2013 at 7:30 PM. More information at Surfer [the bar].

Aqua Seafoam Shame is a critically acclaimed documentary with multiple nominations which explores the horrific diagnosis that 25% of our planet's surface is now garbage landfill, due to the pacific garbage patch and plastics. In 20 years our world could end up with no coral reefs - which means our oceans will revert back to the primordial sludge it was before creatures walked on land. What, if anything, can be done to backpedal the Earth from this cataclysmic trajectory?  

Scary stats: 

• 90% of the big fish in the sea and 20% of our coral reefs have gone extinct 
• 12% of our land is protected but less than 1% of our oceans are 
• 20 Billion pounds of plastic end up in the seas each year 
• 46,000 pieces of plastic are in every square mile of ocean 

One critic hails it as possibly the most important documentary ever made.


 

ALERT - Tsunami Debris from Japan Headed Towards the Pacific Garbage Patch!

 

Quote from comlike4:

 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is expanding. For those who do not know what this is, it is basically comprised of two floating landfills one between Hawaii and California, and the other between Hawaii and Japan. These patches have been growing exponentially, from the first few pieces of fishing nets and plastic bottles discovered 30 years ago, to two patches at least twice the size of Texas (that's a total of over one million square miles of junk). These patches are made up of plastic bottles, furniture, home appliances--pretty much anything you can think of, though 90% of the trash is plastic.

Quote from mallugirls15:

The Fukushima power plant meltdown isn't the only environmental problem created by the Japan tsunami. Refrigerators, TVs, rooftops and other items that the tsunami swept away last year are now floating in the Pacific Ocean, the Washington Post reported. Officials expect the debris to get caught in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The tsunami, which killed 15,844 people and left over 3,000 missing, also washed out 8 million tons of debris to the sea. Most of the debris sank near the shore, the Los Angeles Times reported. But the debris that didn't sink has since traveled 3,000 miles away.