Comments on: The great pacific garbage dump http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2009/09/14/the-great-pacific-garbage-dump/ CrossFit, Finance, Economics, Aviation, Space, and Brooklyn Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:29:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Objectless Office | Quiet Babylon http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2009/09/14/the-great-pacific-garbage-dump/#comment-701 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:29:59 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=857#comment-701 [...] Think spam is bad? Fax spam is worse. Object spam will be worse, still. Will be? I should say that it already is. Every time you go to a conference or sales event and come back with a sack full of unwanted tchotchkes that you’re going to toss, you are glimpsing the objectless future. We’re going to be drowning in the stuff. Moreso, I mean. [...]

]]> By: Reduce, Reuse, then Recycle | Enhance The Human Experience http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2009/09/14/the-great-pacific-garbage-dump/#comment-664 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:11:25 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=857#comment-664 [...] as food by some animals filling their stomachs with material that does not break down, and is difficult to recollect from the oceans. GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Origin", "other"); [...]

]]> By: 2010 in review « Creative Destruction http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2009/09/14/the-great-pacific-garbage-dump/#comment-626 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:02:06 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=857#comment-626 [...] The busiest day of the year was February 17th with 92 views. The most popular post that day was The great pacific garbage dump. [...]

]]> By: njwinter http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2009/09/14/the-great-pacific-garbage-dump/#comment-344 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:42:16 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=857#comment-344 Where do you think the gyre trash comes from? It comes from trashed shorelines and other ocean dumping. Nothing disingenuous here. In a quick search I found exactly zero articles that suggested the gyre trash miasma actually looks like those photos of polluted shorelines.

]]> By: Sameer http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2009/09/14/the-great-pacific-garbage-dump/#comment-332 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:35:25 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=857#comment-332 I think the pics up top are pictures of various polluted shorelines around the world. the one with the buildings in the background I think might be san diego harbor.

]]> By: Gerrit http://blog.creativedestruction.com/2009/09/14/the-great-pacific-garbage-dump/#comment-331 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:48:31 +0000 http://blog.creativedestruction.com/?p=857#comment-331 Those pics up top are ridiculous, where is that?

Below is a nice little infographic, if pictures speak to you. As for me they help, I can’t get beyond 1 or 2 paragraphs these days.

http://www.good.is/post/transparency-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/

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