Save the Planet, kill a smoker today !

[Michel]

Cigarette butts biggest scourge along Canada's shorelines

A recent survey done in advance of this year's cleanup next month shows only 18 per cent of Canadians believe cigarette butts are the top blight on our shorelines.

But during last year's cleanup of shores across the country, volunteers collected well over 270,000 cigarette butts, Mr. Solomon said.

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080820.wbutts0820/BNStory/National/?cid=al_gam_mostdiscuss

    

[Lise]

I'm willing to bet half of those came from Goats but don't tell him I said that.  

[Michel]

  lol

There are so many butt out there that the BBC has decided to rename it's iconic series Blue Planet into Butt Planet...
 

[Sportsdude]

LOL. Sounds like a show you'd see late at night on showcase or cinemax (skinamax).  

[Russ]

Lise wrote:

I'm willing to bet half of those came from Goats but don't tell him I said that.

Hmm.. Good thing Im not goats!
As someone that works and plays on the water I have a better understanding adn respect for it than most people think.
I dont throw my 'butts' over the side for that very reason. It takes forever for the fibreglass in the butts to break down, although in seawater with the constant motion of the water will break it down faster than in the garbage. It will form huge garbage lines and end up eventually on shore. You want to see really bad effects? Look offshore Africa.. its insane. The tree huggers should come over here, take pictures, and complain. I dont see any over here though, too inconveniencing for them to leave their mocha's and warm dry houses.
The ocean is huge but if everyone thinks that im only one person and this is only a little bit...

I constantly give people shit if I see them throwing stuff over the side.

LOL, thanks for thinking of 'goats' Lise!
Ha!

[Michel]

  Russ wrote:
Lise wrote:

I'm willing to bet half of those came from Goats but don't tell him I said that.

Hmm.. Good thing Im not goats!

lol

You want to see really bad effects? Look offshore Africa.. its insane.

Are there thousands of plastic bottles on the shores ? I saw litteraly thousands of water bottles on the shore of Ras Abu Galum National Park in the Sinai desert. The camel could hardly walk on the rock in certain area. Same thing in Mexico in Tuxtla Guttierez, I had to twist myself in the boat to take picture of crocodiles withouth having plastic bottle floating around the beasts, and this was in a National Park too.

How dare they kill all this

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[Michel]

The Communist Saturdays concept of the October Revolution modified with the flavor of the day.

 

Choose your language and enter your postal code on the right hand bottom part of the screen to learn which cleaning activities are available in your area.

 

http://www.vanaqua.org/cleanup/

 

[Russ]

Michel wrote:

Are there thousands of plastic bottles on the shores ? I saw litteraly thousands of water bottles on the shore of Ras Abu Galum National Park in the Sinai desert. The camel could hardly walk on the rock in certain area. Same thing in Mexico in Tuxtla Guttierez, I had to twist myself in the boat to take picture of crocodiles withouth having plastic bottle floating around the beasts, and this was in a National Park too.

 

Really? Theres a shoreline underneath all the garbage over here? Amazing..

Yeah, its pretty bad. In teh western world it would be declared a pollution disaster and be cleaned up by the government.

Its insane how much plastic there is around everywhere you look.

[Lise]

I agree, Russ. We're the worst polluters in the world.  

[Michel]

  Russ wrote:

Really? Theres a shoreline underneath all the garbage over here? Amazing..

Yeah, its pretty bad. In teh western world it would be declared a pollution disaster and be cleaned up by the government.

Its insane how much plastic there is around everywhere you look.

Yeah if it's like that in "pristine natural places", I just can imagine what it looks like close to vast agglomerations of people and industrial areas. But with awareness, it will be cleaned eventually. Just terrible to see this. It took me a month in Egypt to be able to take a picture of a bird not standing on a garbage bag in the Nile. Yep, I kid you not, I saw thousands of birds, I never took any picture except one, as they were all standing on a plastic garbage bag instead of some rock over the water. Very sad.

For the camel beach, I talked to the guy, trying to aware him about that problem. His reply was not very encouraging but telling. He told me : well it's plastic bottled, it's tourists who pollute, you're the one who drink water in plastic bottle, not the Bedouins nor the Egyptians.