Ignorance

After watching the video about the floating plastic island twice the size of Texas in the ocean I first thought how ignorant we all are for wasting so much plastic. I then asked myself what I can do to reduce my impact on our home. After asking myself that question I realized there are many ways I can do so such as not using plastic bags when I go shopping and instead bring my own reusable bags. I also realized I should stop buying bottled water because I could just reuse and refill one bottle. This video is a big eye opener and I think everyone should watch it.

Malama the Aina

The video we watched about pollution was disgusting.  I myself feel its unnecessary to throw gum wrappers on the ground when you can put it in your pocket and wait until your reach a trash can.  A local saying that I stick with to keep me from polluting is "Malama the Aina" which means to nurture our land.  It gave me a wake up call to reality to notice that not all people like to recycle or just too lazy and impatient to walk to the nearest trash can.  The scenes in the video of where there was trash in the water look so nasty! How could people drive past that?  It not only effects us human being but the animals that live in this water, that drink from it.  I think our economy can change eventually.  It'll just take time for everyone to realize the importance of recycling and how simple we can decrease pollution by not throwing it into the sewer but instead using the trash can:)

Our one and only

The video we watched on Thursday really struck a cord with me. I never knew the pollution in the ocean was that bad. It really makes me think about what I can do, and what people like me can do. I didn’t know about this until I saw this video, so I think there are plenty of others that don’t know as well. I really want to learn more about this topics and what someone like me can do. I think if people can see what is going on, see all the trash in the ocean, then maybe they will think twice before polluting. Maybe if they knew that when the plastic does break down, it breaks down right into the sea life, some of which they will eat. Do you want to eat plastic? I don’t, and I’m sure other people don’t want to as well. This is our one and only home and we need to take better care of it before it is no more.

Aqua Colbert

This video made me think about how much effort people like myself put into our decisions when choosing something to drink, which can even be as simple as water. Some of us look at the idea that whatever water you drink determines your status in society. I like how Colbert poked fun at this fact because it lets the person watching realize, is the effort put into deciding what kind of water to drink really worth it? Some of us like me believe that this type of effort is worth it because it is our money being spent on this decision, and if I want to drink some Smart Water no matter the cost I should be able to.

Plastic Ingestion?!

I am quite surprised at how I am practically ingesting plastic everyday. The video gives me a sense of awareness, but does not give me enough motivation to do something to reduce the my plastic intake. I enjoy drinking bottled water! The video, however, does get me wondering about how many people are dying from plastic poison. It is not a big enough issue for everyone to be aware of. I think an issue that involves poison and threatens the well-being of the planet and of humans should be stressed more in televised news programs.

Going Green

The video we watched on Thursday about all the trash and plastic in the water really inspired me to encourage my friends, family, and members of our community, to "go green". I thinks that the amount of damage we did to our home, this planet, is absurd! People usually don't come home from a long day of work, throw all our trash in our house, and let it pile up. No! We respect our homes and keep it clean. So why do people trash the Earth? This planet is our home, in a much bigger scale. Every piece of litter, every car, every factory contributes to disrespecting, and ruining our own home. It is so disgusting to think about all the trash going into the ocean, breaking down into smaller pieces, and being ingested in the sea creatures. Not only is it harmful for marine life, but some of the marine life are animals that we eat.

some do and some don't

I watched the video in English about how plastics and different types of rubbish is making its own island in the middle of the ocean. Its ridiculous how much people care about this problem and there is a whole lot of individuals who don't care about this problem. Trash is seen all over the place, from cigarette butts, bottles and cans, vehicle parts and more random rubbish. My room mates and I always recycle out plastic bottles, can, and card boards. We leave it outside of our door, but early in the morning or late at night someone comes by and take all the recycling. I'd wake up in the morning to take out more recycles to find that our recycles are gone. I try to do the best i can to recycle. It is such a big problem i don't think it will end. I think it will probably decrease somehow, but not everyone will give in to stop the problem. :)

plastics

I recently watched a video clip about plastics being dumped into the ocean and I think that it is wrong because what we put into the storm drains flow back into the sea. When this happens it is poisoning the sea life and pieces of plastic can be found in the sea life which means that people could be eating plastic which would be harmful to humans. People should get out and start helping out and recycling their plastics and other things. If people keep littering and letting it go into the ocean then we are destroying one of the most beautiful things on this earth, our beaches.

Plastic Waste

The video that we watched in English really caught my attention. I never realized just how harmful plastic can be to our ocean and to ourselves as well. If this message was more out there in the public then people would hopefully think again before throwing away their plastic waste and recycle it instead. If plastic wasn't recycled then it would end up in the ocean in tiny bits and pieces and the fishes would begin eating them and the plastic would eventually end up in us. Its like karma, what comes around goes around. If we throw away plastic it will just come right back to us through fish or other animals in the ocean that we eat. If our country and the rest of the world took part in recycling as much things as possible then our world would be much healthier and we wouldn't have to worry about junk being in our body. It would be so great if our government would have more recycling centers where they reuse all the recyclable items to make things that we could use on an everyday basis, like what Tennessee has.
I hope people will get the message about recycling and how plastic is such a waste and harm to our world and make a contribution by stop buying plastic bottles and just drink from the tap or just buy those 5 gallon jugs. The less plastic the better the world would be.

Questioing simple @#$%

My English class watched a video last Thursday concerning the ridiculous amount of plastic waste that is accumulating on the planet. Here on Maui, I see it everyday. For example: If you drive on the road past the island refuse area you will see plenty of plastic bags caught in the tree's branches lining the road. These are just a few of the"lucky" bags that happen to get caught in the trees. Seeing these, you know that the rest of the bags that don't get caught in the branches blow their way into the ocean: Awesome. When I go to the Grocery store to pick up a six-pack of beer the cashiers insist that the six-pack is put into a plastic bag. When I try to fight them on this, saying I don't want one, I am informed that it is state law that the beer is put into a bag, even though its already in a carrying container. Shouldn't Hawaii's government be making laws that helps stop its pollution instead of helping create it?

Where's my money!

In our english class, we watched a video clip titled: "The Landlord." I really like that video and when the guy opened the door and the little girl was standing outside the house, I thought it was interesting because I wasn't really expecting to see a little girl and for her to swear kind of caught me off guard and at first I was shocked and dissapointed to hear her swear because I was taught as a little kid to not swear but then I realized that everyone is different and everyone was taught different and that video made me think differently.

Why Do We Throw Away Money?

This blog is pertaining to the video of "Water bottles costing millions and billions of dollars." This message has made me realize how much we depend on bottled water. When I was younger, I remembered always drinking tapped water. The freshness of it. The purity too. Then one day the media catches our attention with contaminated water, and how it's unsafe to drink from your own faucet at home. Was that just a way of generating more money for the government? Are we easily brain washed from the media? We already pay an extra 5 cents per bottle on top of the original price of $1.99 & up.

I can no longer drink from the tapped water anymore. I get an unsatisfying taste from it. It sometimes make my face cringe. Is it really not okay to drink that water anymore? I don't really know. But of all the money we waste to drink one bottle of water, seems a little skeptical that the government would allow it. I can't really figure it out yet. But I'm sure there is a catch to spending all that money on water bottles. The safety of the people? Or the people created this crazy expense. Not sure what happened, but it just does not seem right. How can we fix this?

let's help the world and RECYCLE!

Today in my ENG 100 class (02.11.09) we watched a video clip about "our" waste getting dumped into the ocean. And it is still growing! That is very disturbing. And it needs to stop!!!

Having to watch this clip made me sick to my stomach. Therefore, I'm one of the people that enjoys sea food. Thinking what they have swallowed can be one of the things we have thrown away and it can be one of the reasons why many of us gets food poisoning or what-so-ever.

Also, having to watched this and know whats going on out there to our beautiful beaches upsets me. Maybe because "WE" are the one who is causing all this problems to our world. First, global warming and now this? Wow, what else can we do wrong?

To end this, I just want to say that "I am proud that me and my families recycle." and I really do believe that everyone should do it as well. It is not only helping the world but us people.