Talk:Marine debris/GA2

GA Review

This is quite close to GA standard I think, but there a few issues that need to be addressed:

• What is the relevance of a sign warning not to pollute a stream in Colorado Springs to an article dealing with marine debris?

• "Currently, the California State Legislature is considering a host of bills ...". Currently as at when? 2008?

• "Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property can be of consequence within property law, admiralty law, and the law of the sea." I don't understand what "of consequence" means in this context.

• "... whereas some reckon it closer to the size of Africa." Who are these "some"?

• "Should any islands be unlucky enough to lie within a gyre ...". I think the "unlucky" bit should be dropped as expressing a pov.

• "... their coastlines will likely be ruined by the waste that inevitably washes ashore." Likely needs a citation.

• "Clean-up teams around the world patrol beaches to clean up this environmental threat." Not sure what environmental threat this is talking about, as the preceding sentences were talking specifically about islands within oceanic gyres.

• "More recently, reports have surfaced ...". Reports don't "surface". What are these reports? From whom?

• The Weisman book is cited three times, but no page numbers are given.

• "Law of Europe" and "Law of the United States" seems unnecessarily awkward names for sections. Why not "European law", and "United States law"?

• "Eighty percent of all known debris is plastic – a component that has been rapidly accumulating since the end of World War II.[3] Plastics accumulate because they don't biodegrade as many other substances do; although they will photodegrade on exposure to sunlight, they do so only under dry conditions, as water inhibits this process." I have a number of problems with this paragraph. What does "known debris" mean? Is there some unknown debris? Accumulating where? And this seems tautological: "they do so only under dry conditions, as water inhibits this process". Water inhibits the process of being dry?

• The first paragraph of types of debris is unreferenced. Which isn't a problem in itself, but this statement does need to be sourced: "Six pack rings, in particular, are considered a poster child of the damage that garbage can do to the marine environment." Who says so?

• Ref #27 has gone dead.

• "Marine debris ... is human-created waste ... Some forms of marine debris, such as driftwood, occur naturally". How is this, from the lead, to be reconciled? Not really a great opener.

I'm putting this article on hold to allow time for these issues to be addressed. I will check back in no less than seven days.

--Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 22:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

• As these issues remain outstanding, this article has not been listed as a GA. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 19:41, 18 August 2008 (UTC)