Name: Garbage Island: An Ocean Full of Plastic (Part 1/3)
Uploaded: 2014-08-29T03:30:54.000Z
Duration: 20 min 48 s
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CHARLES MOORE: Every reporter changes the story.

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Just like every scientist changes what he's observing,

MEREDITH DANLUCK: What are we doing, Joe?

JOE GOODMAN: Well, I'm ready to put a plastic catcher in

There's a misconception that the worst kind of spill is the

CHARLES MOORE: But it's really these nice little bits of your

THOMAS MORTON: So we're just on the outskirts of

I haven't really even gotten into the thick of things.

And already, in the last hour, we've seen more fucking trash

float by than we have in the entire voyage up until now.

We're nowhere near any other fucking ships.

All fucking plastic too, all gross, sun baked, plastic.

FREDERICK VOM SAAL: Just this one chemical, bisphenol A,

that is used to make this hard, clear plastic called

polycarbonate, is produced at over 7 billion pounds a year.

It's being thrown away into the environment.

The evidence from Europe, Asia, the United States, is

There is actually a study in Japan where women with

elevated levels of bisphenol A were the women who were

repeatedly miscarrying, never able to have

When you go out into the ocean and you see that the ocean is

full of these plastic products, where in the world

JAKE BURGHART: All right, whenever you're ready.

We're here in Long Beach, California, on our way to meet

Charles Moore, who's the captain of the oceanographic

For a number of years, we've been reading these articles

about this just huge section of the ocean that's

10 years ago, on a sailing trip back from Australia,

Captain Moore took a detour into a section of the North

Pacific called the North Pacific Gyre, which is kind of

That area has historically acted as a collecting point

And it's sometimes referred to as the Eastern Garbage Patch.

Now, with the advent of plastics, it's just become one

When Captain Moore found it, it was just plastic bags and

bottles and consumer products as far as the eye can see.

Some places have estimated it as the size of Texas.

There's a lot of what sounds like hyperbole.

So we're going to go out with Captain Moore on his boat to

And I've been kind of boning up on my knots and swimming

A week to get out there, a week of taking samples and

hanging out with all the trash, and a week to get back.

We are 1/2 of the crew of the ORV Alguita on our way to

CHARLES MOORE: We've got some people for you to meet here.

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Garbage Island: An Ocean Full of Plastic (Part 1/3)

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