Plastic Soup - Great Pacific Garbage Patch

his season, we dig deeper.We travel farther.We face the uncomfortable truths:Environmental disasters don't just happen — they are made.Forgotten communities. Poisoned waters. Stolen futures.Season Two uncovers the hidden costs and lost hopes of the world's greatest — and often hidden — ecological tragedies.Because if we forget... we are doomed to repeat them.🎧 Listen to Season 2 — coming soon wherever you get your podcasts.#EnvironmentalDisastersPodcast #SeasonTwo #NeverForgetLinktree: https://linktr.ee/environmentaldisasterspodcastOriginal Music - "All the Little Pieces" by ROZKOL (go check his other stuff out https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ROZKOL/)

References for this episode: https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/soil-salinity/dryland-salinity-western-australia-0 https://www.waterquality.gov.au/issues/salinity https://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/salinity/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336437/ Videos: https://youtu.be/yJ4pnyWdXoU?si=PVRUh5fQy_FSB_cm Talking about salinity management systems https://youtu.be/P4pX5W_WwU4?si=GzrphAXZyASPIeVV Talking about the creation of the salinity problem and lasting effects Intro - ROZKOL (Quiet Outro) Outro - Ketsa - Unify

Heard of Times Beach, MO? One of the biggest environmental disasters in the United States happened there almost 40 years ago. A chemical company that was known for creating components of Agent Orange gets caught up in a lawsuit when a waste oil hauler uses it to spray dust roads.  Intro: Ketsa - Unify Outro: ROZKOL - 03 - Quiet Outro Sources:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/educational-magazines/times-beach-missouri

Dive in to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and let's get dirty.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisastersEnviro Website: http://environmentaldisasterspodcast.com/ Sources: The Ocean Cleanup: https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/#:~:text=A%202018%20study%20found%20that,marine%20debris%20for%20two%20reasons. Music: Ketsa - Unify for Intro, Bio Unit - Empty Head for Outro

I'll be uploading the first episode this week, 6/14/20 so please be on the look out for it. Episode 1 - The misleading Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This first episode will be the first of many addressing the plastics issue. If the environment concerns you and you want to learn more about the challenges we're up against, please tune in. Music by ROZKOL: https://rozkol.bandcamp.com/music.