I Have One Word For You . . .

[Perknose]

Plastics!

Clean up on aisle P to be attempted.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Plastics!

Clean up on aisle P to be attempted.

I look forward to reports of the amount of marine life destroyed by this vs microplastics gathered.

 

[realibrad]

Saw a youtube video about this. Looks like a good start, but, this has to be only a tool of a much larger system if we want to clean this mess up.

 

[Homerboy]

Saw a youtube video about this. Looks like a good start, but, this has to be only a tool of a much larger system if we want to clean this mess up.

Scaling will come in time. It will never be perfect of course, but you have to start somewhere and 150,000lbs in the first year is a good start.
What "worries" me more is that if ends up that we can clean it up, then the attitude towards how it get there may not change and simply become "who cares, we can clean it up". But that's like saying "who cares if my house catches on fire if the fire department can put it out". Damage will be done.

 

[realibrad]

Scaling will come in time. It will never be perfect of course, but you have to start somewhere and 150,000lbs in the first year is a good start.
What "worries" me more is that if ends up that we can clean it up, then the attitude towards how it get there may not change and simply become "who cares, we can clean it up". But that's like saying "who cares if my house catches on fire if the fire department can put it out". Damage will be done.

Well, then you seem to have the solution to your worry. People might have a solution, but its a solution with damage. Unless your worry is that the solution would remove the damage. In that case, if there is no damage, then good. I would imagine that your worry is not that we could clean it up, but, that we could clean up enough to make people feel likes it not a huge issue and accept the issue.

Then again, that is how we got here in the first place right?

 

[aigomorla]

LOL....

We cant stop sending it to China!
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17484866/chinas-plastic-waste-import-ban-trash

 

[imported_tajmahal]

In case you want to see where 95% of that plastic enters the oceans you can check out this map.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/these-10-rivers-carry-95-of-all-plastic-into-the-ocean


"Not all of these rivers are equally guilty. As the graph below shows, the Yangtze is the main culprit, ejecting around 1.5 million tonnes of plastic into the East China Sea. That’s more than the other nine rivers combined."

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

So... What about plastic (or any trash) that is on the ocean floor? Understandably a good amount will float from not being completely filled - but I figure a good amount is at the bottom?

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

In case you want to see where 95% of that plastic enters the oceans you can check out this map.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/these-10-rivers-carry-95-of-all-plastic-into-the-ocean


"Not all of these rivers are equally guilty. As the graph below shows, the Yangtze is the main culprit, ejecting around 1.5 million tonnes of plastic into the East China Sea. That’s more than the other nine rivers combined."

Those god damn fucking western capitalist societies producing all the filth, waste, and horrible people that litter everywhere!

 

[MixMasterTang]

In case you want to see where 95% of that plastic enters the oceans you can check out this map.

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/these-10-rivers-carry-95-of-all-plastic-into-the-ocean


"Not all of these rivers are equally guilty. As the graph below shows, the Yangtze is the main culprit, ejecting around 1.5 million tonnes of plastic into the East China Sea. That’s more than the other nine rivers combined."

Article states 95% of river bourne plastics enter through those rivers, there are lots of plastic that enters directly into the ocean that this does not account for.