A couple of weeks ago, my friend, Joanne on the island of Kauai sent me some sad pictures of a 56 foot long, 120,000 pound sperm whale that had died and was washed ashore onto the beach.
She also shared a photo of where the sperm whale was buried and marked with large boulders.
The ocean was once and maybe is still being used as a garbage dumping area which is harming all the seabirds and animals that share our planet with us.
We generate a LOT of non-degradable material. Hawaii does now limit plastic use.
I hope it's making a difference because we still see a lot of plastic washed up on the beaches.
It's sad.
There are laws against dumping trash into the oceans but...hard to enforce. We need tougher Enforcement!
ReplyDeleteHow sad for the whale!!
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Donna
This is heartbreaking, and scary when you consider plastics in the ocean hasn't been happening that long. Well, we're losing our plastic bags here in Pittsburgh in 6 weeks. It's a start...😟
ReplyDeleteIt's tragic all the plastic that litters even our streets here in Caney. Every time I take my walk, I pick up an entire grocery bag full of trash..including many plastic bottles. And by the way, I am Margie..not Anonymous!
ReplyDeleteI recall seeing some info on that garbage area in the Pacific. Pretty awful.
ReplyDeleteThat's a tragedy. We have polluted so much of this beautiful world. I hope we can find a remedy but fear it may already be too late.
ReplyDeleteIt is very sad, but I really don’t see an end in sight. Not in the ocean, but just look for dumpster diving on YouTube and see the enormous waste from businesses. Makes me think doing my little bit is for naught…. Joyce
ReplyDeleteHeart breaking indeed. These beautiful creatures are paying the price for our selfishness and destruction of the planet.
ReplyDeleteSo sad.
ReplyDeletePoor whale
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this thoughtful post Kay
ReplyDeleteLakes here suffer the same problem with lots of plastic garbage.
ReplyDeleteHere too. While we have limited the use of plastic bags and you must now bring your own or pay 8 cents per bag, people still just treat them as single use disposables and toss them around. How to we get careless people to care?
ReplyDeleteI read that there's a bacteria(?) that digests plastic. I imagine somewhere someone is working on a safe way to use this... without endangering life in the process.
ReplyDeleteI do hope we can find some way to deal with all the waste we produce, especially that which affects other life, like that beautiful whale. I am not optimistic, because people seem not to care about other life forms. It is very sad indeed.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad. We use plastic wrap, bags, etc. because of how convenient and inexpensive it is. I do try my best to recycle but it is still probably not enough.
ReplyDeleteHow sad, how sad. Thank you for holding this stupidity aloft, for many to see.
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It is very sad and I’m not optimistic that we are learning this hard lesson fast enough.
ReplyDeleteIt is shocking to see what washes up on beaches, what is tossed from cars along the highways.
ReplyDeleteThat's sad.
ReplyDeleteSo sad for such an amazing animal. I didn't see any mainland news mention this whale. That's a lot of stuff from his necropsy (what an animal autopsy is called.) Hard to understand how he could swallow some of those things. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteKay of Musings: Fishing nets and plastics have always been a huge problem for ocean and bird life here in the islands and I’m sure around the world.
ReplyDeleteThat is sad.
ReplyDeleteSo sad.
ReplyDeleteWe have polluted so much of our world and it is a huge problem.
All the best Jan
I read about this and as you say, it is very, very sad to know the cause. It seems an overwhelming task. I hope science will provide an answer and in the meantime I will do my small part and hope something can be done, sooner than later.
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