Most of the material that the gannets find are actually nylon ropes from all sorts of martime activities. Hard to collect for recycling. But of course there is debris blown onto the waves from land based households and enterprises too. Much of that is recycled, but far from all.
One of the things I have a personal gripe with is plastic-wrapped heybales (aka. tractor eggs). Many farmers leave them outdoors for livestock to forage on when out. The animals tear off the plastic in pieces, which is then distributed with the wind. Jostein 2009/2/19 Joseph McAllister <[email protected]>: > The trash we discard in the sea, the nets cut loose to ensnare dolphins, > tuna, etc, are a disgrace. Worse yet are the plastic six pack (and eight > pack) loops that get tangled up in birds legs and necks. At the dump > primarily, but anywhere they are discarded. > > Please use a knife or scissors to cut every loop on those things (large and > small) before they are discarded. Write to your local and state and federal > representatives and try to get these things recycled instead of thrown away. > Don't know if it does any good, but I use one of these to tie 25 or more > together using the smallest hole, and cut all the other holes before placing > them in the recycle bin. If your area recycles bundled plastic bags and/or > gallon milk jugs, they may just recycle these items as well. Worth a try. > > Joe > > On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:07 , [email protected] wrote: > >> Read eg. page 2 in this: >> http://www.adoptabeach.org.uk/downloads/strandline/winter2006.pdf >> >> It's quite sad, really. >> >> Jostein >> >> ============= >> Thanks, Jostein. Actually I wondered if that was it, if they were all >> over >> and I was seeing them without realizing it. >> >> Marnie aka Doe Darn, sigh. > > Joseph McAllister > Lots of gear, not much time > > http://gallery.me.com/jomac > http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
