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The open plains of the asphalt jungle.
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Home to many creatures, great and small.
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And the pppping ground for one the
most clever and illustrious creatures,
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the Plastic Bag.
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Today we explore the cycle of life for
this curious creature, the plastic bag
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on its migration to its home,
the Pacific ocean.
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Once released into the wild,
the plastic bag is unsure of itself.
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It falters at first, but soon, with some help from the wind,
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the bag will be airborne!
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This flight will be the first in its long
journey towards it's final destination:
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the Garbage Patch in the heart
of the Pacific Ocean.
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Using the wind to guide it,
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the plastic bag moves across the city,
through the air.
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A city park.
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This park may, at first, seem like an
idyllic place for the plastic bag,
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but danger lurks around every corner.
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Here it will encounter many enemies,
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including one of the MOST dangerous...
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Park Services!
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Poor little fellow. Looks like
HIS journey ends here.
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Meanwhile, our little bag has encountered
one of nature's most deadly killers...
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the Teacup Yorkie.
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Once the Yorkie has locked onto it's
victim, there is very little hope of survival.
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But using it's superior size and
deft manouvering,
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our bag manages to escape the
Yorkie's talons and flee for its life.
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Over the course of its
miraculous migration,
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the plastic bag will cover VAST distances,
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through neighborhoods, across
parks, and down city streets.
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It is now nightfall and our highly
advanced Night Vision Cameras
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have managed to capture, for the
FIRST TIME in history,
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a plastic bag in pitch black.
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PHENOMENAL!
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The vast cement rivers of California,
home to literally dozens of animals.
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Many plastic bags will not make
it out of here,
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the reeds and branches will see to that.
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As at home in water as it is
on land or in the air,
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the bag's natural buoyancy makes
it an excellent swimmer.
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It's close now...
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and it can feel it!
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At last the bag has reached
the gateway to the open sea.
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Careful to avoid the mouths of hungry
sea-life that feed on the helpless plastic,
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the bag will travel 100s of miles, to join
the thriving community of plastic known as
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the GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH.
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The Garbage Patch is a
veritable plastic oasis,
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where millions of tons of plastic
garbage remain entrapped by the currents.
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It is said to be twice the size of Texas,
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never actually biodegrading,
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Here the plastic bag can live indefinitely,
peacefully, coexisting with
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billions of other petroleum species,
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before breaking into ever tinier plastic pieces,
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thus completing the plastic cycle of life.
