Environmentalists Howel Over Plastic Bag Dump : A Fraud

Plastic bag dump the size of Texas? In the ocean - 'out of sigh'? Well, of course, it would be out of sight, how could the eco-fascists loons demand we spend millions on their project clean this up if it were 'in sight' for all to see to authentic their claim of calamity. Woha!

The progressive left Marxist eco-fascist has to claim the high ground on their personal integrity alone. To have to prove their claim of disaster, if nothing is done, is out of the question.

As we all can recall, when Democrats are in power, the word of the Marxist loon
fanatic environmentalist was good enough. Remember screams for 'No more nuclear power plants, no more drilling off shore or ANWAR, no more coal fired power plants, no more oil refineries', and now they hate natural gas as well.

As the last November election proved, the citizens have had enough of this nonsense. It's time for common sense to rule the day.

"Great Garbage Patch" not so Great
Source: David Godow, "Restricting Plastic Bag Use May Bring Little Oceanic Payoff," Reason Foundation, April 20, 2011.

The push by state and local governments to either tax or ban conventional plastic bags revolves around the assumption that plastic bag use degrades the environment. One of the biggest weapons in tax advocates' intellectual arsenal is the so-called "Great Garbage Patch," a collection of various man-made debris (including plastic) blighting the North Pacific Ocean.

The garbage patch, often said to be the size of Texas, is luridly described as "the largest landfill in the world," a vortex of plastic that poisons oceanic wildlife, says David Godow, a research assistant at the Reason Foundation. It turns out the true story might be a little less exciting.

According to researchers at Oregon State University, the "great garbage patch" is neither especially great, nor even really a "patch." Instead, it's a zone of ocean where debris particulates -- often invisible from the surface -- exist at a higher concentration than the rest of the ocean.
There's no great mass of plastic bags the size of Texas; research has established that the reality is closer to 1 percent of the state's size.

As assistant professor of oceanography Angel White puts it: "If we were to filter the surface area of the ocean equivalent to a football field in waters having the highest concentration (of plastic) ever recorded, the amount of plastic recovered would not even extend to the 1-inch line."