Response #17 Ocean plastic could triple in decade

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I once seen photos and videos of the amount of plastic that is in oceans, and it horrified me. It shocked me to see the sheer amount of trash and plastic floating around and I've always wondered how it got there. It seemed like people were being lazy when tossing trash not in trashcans, and it seems despite the education about recycling and helping saving oceans, the change isn't occurring fast enough.

I've always wondered, how would this situation be helped? It seemed a lot of the trash was floating on the surface, and I've wondered if there was a way to lightly skim the garbage off the surface of the water. I'm pretty sure there are reasons why this isn't practical or why people don't do it enough, but it seems like people don't think cleaning up the oceans are important enough. It also should be important to tell people to stop throwing trash into the water, because they need to stop. Why would you do that? You are too lazy to walk a few steps to a trash can? Your laziness or the lives of fish and ocean animals that might be negatively effected by it? Sigh.

The visual of oceans of plastic and trash is honestly sad to me. The fact that it would triple in as soon as a decade is even more depressing. There needs to be some sort of change to slow or stop this future, but at this rate it seems extremely unlikely.