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