MetaFilter posts tagged with rubbish

Whirling Vortex of Stupidity

chuckdarwin — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:40:27 -0800

The North Pacific Trash Vortex - Researchers have discovered a Texas-sized area of (mostly plastic) rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean. On the most recent episode of QI, Fry posed this question: "what is the largest man-made object in the world?" The answer: The North Pacific Trash Vortex. The North Pacific sub-tropical gyre covers a large area of the Pacific in which the water circulates clockwise in a slow spiral, which tends to force any floating material into the low energy central area of the gyre. Given its size, I tried looking for a satellite image of it, but have failed so far. Anyone know of one?

Ban The Bag

chuckdarwin — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:39:47 -0800

The Algalita Marine Research Foundation's video Synthetic Sea is pretty shocking. "All we can do is stop polluting and hope the system will clean itself up in hundreds of years." So, what will be the fate of the plastic bag until the inevitable ban comes? Should they be Taxed? Should they be Banned ? Should stores charge extra for them? We don't really have a lot of time to argue about it.

What a load of rubbish...

Orange Goblin — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:07:12 -0800

Garbage of New York City - litter that is collected, packaged up in a neat plastic box, and then sold for $50 a pop.

Meet the newspeak, same as the oldspeak

Mr. Six — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:40:27 -0800

When taking lessons in English from the BBC, be sure to follow up with remedial "playground-speak"

slippery slippery slope

trinarian — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:23:02 -0800

All those in favor of a mandatory web labeling law, say "ay!"