Monday, October 22, 2018
9.3 Blog: Green Chemistry
Watching "Digging into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" was shocking. I thought they were going to highlight garbage dumps, but rather they showed how all the waste from countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean shows up in natural reserves on the north end of Hawaii. The snapshots of animal carcasses with waste inside them and the turtle whose shell grew around the zip tie to look like an hourglass were particularly devastating. I hope green chemistry is adopted nation wide and eventually worldwide. I wish there was more of an initiative for this so the world doesn't end up looking like this:
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The video was really eye-opening and sad. I hope too, that green chemistry becomes a universal concept. It would dramatically clean up these pristine environments and oceans.
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