Recapping #2: Plasticized

Another movie review, I chosen to watch for additional 5pts extra credit it was "Plasticized". This movie was an intimate account of a first hand journey aboard the Sea Dragon with 5 Gyres Institute on the very first scientific expedition, focused on plastic waste, through the centre of the South Atlantic Ocean. Their global mission was to study the effects, reality, and scale of plastic pollution around the world. The project was inspired by Charles Moore and partnered with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. He wanted to raise awareness to other people about this massive soup of buoyant plastics, now known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Regarding to where the trash of plastics come from is a global problem. Plastic pollution can be found at every coastline and ocean in the world. All the plastic are washed into the sea from every continents of the world. The whole clean up will require an international world help to solve the problem. It took 31 days on the sea to do the mission from California to South Africa, and completed 4,000+ miles of sailing. Some people that I may mention their bibliography can be found at this site http://5gyres.org/who_we_are/advisors_and_staff/ .

Ana Cummins said it best, "What they are doing with 5 Gyers and Algalita is looking at distribution of plastic. Scam the surface of the ocean, count pieces of plastic in lab, and share the results." The goal for trawling is 15-50,000 miles until they get to South Africa is to deploy the sea surface trawls. The plastic can be traced from our footsteps in the United States all the way to Japan. We don't have to ever be at Japan at all, but our plastic can travel over there. Chelsea Rochman is like an environmental chemistry or toxicology professional, and she notice a lot of nurdel of plastics, and these are virgin of plastic found 100 miles offshore. Her project throughout the trip was to research the plastic, the manufactures of plastics that absorbs onto the ocean. How that effect the animals if it transfer to their tissue and toxic effects of that. There was a control survey of feeding the fish plastics in the ocean for 3 months or straight out the manufacture plastics. They did ate the plastic, they looked for toxic effects, losing weight, anemic, single cell losses in the liver.

Chelsea Rochman and Nurdels

Plastic Pollution is a big concern of the causes of plastic being the ocean. Jody Lemmon mentioned "The Ocean is sick in away of pollution, we don't the extend of the problem is, and the damages of the long terms.The pollutants are proven to stick to plastics, and transfer into the dissolve into the organism of the animals. It can also mess up their reproductive systems, and hormones to be mimic. Color of white plastic can disrupt the food source of animals because it can mimic their natural food source in the ocean or on the surface. Visible at night or looks like a fish egg or Zooplankton. 3rd world country does not realized their plastics does not absorbs into the ground, everything we use as plastic throw it on the ground will go back into the Earth. Plastic only biodegrades in the right conditions, so it does it in the ocean from the sunlight and it not a good thing in this area of the world. In addition, 3rd world countries does not know plastic will stay around 400-1000 years.Therefore, new chemical formulas needs to be created, so there can be biodegradable products.

Ever since WWII we started making single use of plastic, no body was thinking about the environmental nightmares outcomes. Unlike thinking about our useful purpose of plastic, we need to go safe our beautiful planet from plastic being produce and sent into the ocean. There are a lot of animals dying from the plastics we produce into the ocean. In fact, we are producing 10's of 1,000's of trash plastic just floating in the ocean. Overall, anyone can learn a lot of what impact plastic can do onto our ocean. I believe it's a 10/10 movie.