You Will Want To Recycle Everything After Seeing These Photos!

[polly7]

Last edited Fri May 8, 2015, 10:41 AM - Edit history (1)

Warning - (Some photos are very GRAPHIC and show extreme animal and child suffering).

May 2, 2015 by Amanda Froelich

From oil spills to overflowing landfills, man’s unsustainable quest to live a better life with little regard for the environment has caused a staggering amount of environmental disasters to be formed. At present, pollution is labeled to be the #1 killer, affecting more than 100 million worldwide.

And the extent of unsustainable consumerism, of course, does not just affect the human species. More than 1 million seabirds and 100 million mammals are killed by pollution every year.

Obviously change is needed – but what can inspire people to live more sustainably and limit their carbon footprint than startling statistics? Possibly the photos shown below, which in their heartbreaking real-ness, expose the truth of what is happening across the globe.

Following are 20+ shocking photos which capture man-made disasters and their effect on the environment. If these photos don’t inspire you to collect trash when you see it, it’s time to wake up.

http://www.trueactivist.com/you-will-want-to-recycle-everything-after-seeing-these-photos/

Whales have been showing up dead on multiple beaches, bringing us a message with stomachs full of plastic. This has happened multiple times. In the summer of July 2013, a sperm whale was stranded on Tershelling, a Northern island in the Netherlands. The whale swallowed 56 different plastic items that totalled over 37 pounds. In April 2010, a gray whale died after stranding itself on a West Seattle beach, it was found to have over 20 plastic bags, small towels, surgical gloves, plastic pieces, duct tape, and more in its system. In March of 2013 a dead sperm whale washed up on Spain’s South coast which swallowed 17kg of plastic waste.

The list goes on and on. Keep in mind, these are whales who choose to beach themselves or have washed up on shore, think about all the whales and other marine beings that don’t.

Fishing NetThese are not uncommon events, in 1989 a stranded sperm whale in the Lavezzi Islands died of a stomach obstruction after accidentally ingesting plastic bags and 100 feet of plastic sheeting. A paper published in 1990 reports that a sperm whale in Iceland died due to a complete obstruction of the gut with plastic marine debris. In August 2008, a sperm whale washed up dead on the beach near Point Reyes, California, with 450 Pounds of fishing net, plastic bags and rope found in its stomach (see picture to the left) In 2008, the California Marine Mammal Stranding Database recorded another sperm whale with enormous amounts of plastic and fish netting in its stomach.

I’ll stop there as there are countless examples.

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/01/28/dead-whales-are-showing-up-bringing-us-a-message-stomachs-full-of-plastic/

God ... we suck.

[appal_jack]

1. There should be only two categories of products:

1) All products that require disposal or recycling should require a refundable deposit (similar to but larger than those for soda cans at present in many states). Manufacturers would be responsible for receiving and properly recycling these materials once they are collected. From cars, to computers, to plastic water bottles to plastic tarps: the state holds the deposit until they are redeemed, then the manufacturer (or an association of manufacturers) recapture the resources of said materials.

2) Products and packaging could only forego the required deposit and return requirements if they are 100% biodegradable within one year of exposure to the environment.

If it's not either quickly and safely biodegradable or recyclable, with the attendant funding and cradle-to-grave plan for such recycling, we don't need to be manufacturing it.

-app

[GliderGuider]

2. We already have only two categories of products:

1) Profitable

2) Unprofitable

Too bad, so sad.

[hunter]

3. I'm less interested in recycling things than boycotting everything.

My own major vice is beer bottles and cans, but they all get recycled.

Free plastic shopping bags are banned in my community, and ordinary plastic or glass beverage containers have a bounty on them. They don't end up in the landfill.

If I was a boss of our county I would have one of the cleanest incinerator power plants in the world until there was there was no trash left to incinerate.

Our county's power supply is largely fracked gas now, and that's worse.

For now in our county stuff left over after the recyclable stuff is removed get's buried. Maybe it's a net carbon sink. but I doubt it.