Does this mean I can start getting plastic straws with my drinks again?
Omg some great news in a sea of bad news we need more of this
Why should the west be on the hook for chinese waste disposal?
More likely to have some youtuber(s) clean the ocean first before any government body does
Don’t they pick up as much plastic in a month as is dumped in the ocean in a minute? How could they possibly keep up?
Elon could fund this project. One of you mega billionaires need to step up.
Price tag $7.5 Billion. Probably balloons to 10-15 all said and done.
Seems like an international effort where the US puts in 10, China puts in 2, Japan puts in 1, the rest of the world ponies up $1.5, with the US pleading for literally anyone else to put in a bit more money.
Guess its not a problem after all!
*Good News*
People in the comments on this hell site: I hate this, ugh.
Plenty more where that came from
doubt
Uhm… can we see pictures of the patch?? And of the progress??
The Albatross is one of many species who is staring down the threat of extinction due to plastics in the ocean. The remote islands they breed on are covered in plastic. The bellies of adults and chicks are full of plastics.
Boomers destroyed our world and the new generations are saving it, on some anime shit.
The Ocean Cleanup is my favorite environmental org.
Ok, I’ll sign off on this. You guys can get started
It wouldn’t surprise me if all that plastic is warming oceans and also a partial cause of global warming.
I wonder what the effects of a “Garbage fishing season” would be. At the end of whatever fishing season happens fishing boat have to go out to the patch and pick up as much weight in trash as they did in fish. Get paid for gas and supplemental hours for the crew. I’m guessing the fisheries would improve too.
Cleaning up the ocean is crucial for marine life and global ecosystems.
Lol … this is just stupid …. I won’t bet a cent on it. In fact, the opposite is going to happen. In 10 years, the garbage patch is going to grow because we dump a lot faster into the ocean than cleaning up. It is not even the same order of magnitude.
Solve it at the source and clean up the rest
I’ve watched many videos on Ocean Cleanups Youtube channel and it seems like the priority is stopping new plastic entering the ocean. They’ve build devices they call interceptors that are constructed across a river and trap any passing plastic and the amount they collect is surely a lot more than any they collect out at sea, not to mention it’s a lot easier and cheaper
They might be able to clean up the stuff floating on the surface of the water in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but the stuff on the bottom will be there till the sun leaves the main sequence.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours picking up trash in waterways and parks around Nashville TN. Trash by the dumpster-load floats down the Cumberland from Nashville all the time into my rural community. Both small stuff like cans and beer bottles, and large stuff like car tires, lumber, barrels, etc.
I could have 50 people working for me picking up trash full time, and probably not be able to keep up with the volume, much less make any headway on the backload of trash.
And that’s one tiny section of one state. Multiply that by the size of the world, and we and our children are likely to be drowning in garbage for centuries.
The only way to stop trash is to stop trash people. It takes thousands of times more effort to pick up litter than to avoid littering in the first place. The only solution that works is prevention. We need a federal legislative solution to littering that involves deposits, stiff painful penalties with jail time, and heavy enforcement.
Humanity has fucked this planet. I will live the entirety of my life wallowing in other people’s garbage thanks to that.
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funding will be cut in 4 years /s
“Could” but won’t.
*could*
Does this mean I can start getting plastic straws with my drinks again?
Omg some great news in a sea of bad news we need more of this
Why should the west be on the hook for chinese waste disposal?
More likely to have some youtuber(s) clean the ocean first before any government body does
Don’t they pick up as much plastic in a month as is dumped in the ocean in a minute? How could they possibly keep up?
Elon could fund this project. One of you mega billionaires need to step up.
Price tag $7.5 Billion. Probably balloons to 10-15 all said and done.
Seems like an international effort where the US puts in 10, China puts in 2, Japan puts in 1, the rest of the world ponies up $1.5, with the US pleading for literally anyone else to put in a bit more money.
Guess its not a problem after all!
*Good News*
People in the comments on this hell site: I hate this, ugh.
Plenty more where that came from
doubt
Uhm… can we see pictures of the patch?? And of the progress??
The Albatross is one of many species who is staring down the threat of extinction due to plastics in the ocean. The remote islands they breed on are covered in plastic. The bellies of adults and chicks are full of plastics.
Boomers destroyed our world and the new generations are saving it, on some anime shit.
The Ocean Cleanup is my favorite environmental org.
https://theoceancleanup.com/donate/
Humans have done harder things, good look
Ok, I’ll sign off on this. You guys can get started
It wouldn’t surprise me if all that plastic is warming oceans and also a partial cause of global warming.
I wonder what the effects of a “Garbage fishing season” would be. At the end of whatever fishing season happens fishing boat have to go out to the patch and pick up as much weight in trash as they did in fish. Get paid for gas and supplemental hours for the crew. I’m guessing the fisheries would improve too.
Cleaning up the ocean is crucial for marine life and global ecosystems.
Lol … this is just stupid …. I won’t bet a cent on it. In fact, the opposite is going to happen. In 10 years, the garbage patch is going to grow because we dump a lot faster into the ocean than cleaning up. It is not even the same order of magnitude.
Solve it at the source and clean up the rest
I’ve watched many videos on Ocean Cleanups Youtube channel and it seems like the priority is stopping new plastic entering the ocean. They’ve build devices they call interceptors that are constructed across a river and trap any passing plastic and the amount they collect is surely a lot more than any they collect out at sea, not to mention it’s a lot easier and cheaper
They might be able to clean up the stuff floating on the surface of the water in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but the stuff on the bottom will be there till the sun leaves the main sequence.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours picking up trash in waterways and parks around Nashville TN. Trash by the dumpster-load floats down the Cumberland from Nashville all the time into my rural community. Both small stuff like cans and beer bottles, and large stuff like car tires, lumber, barrels, etc.
I could have 50 people working for me picking up trash full time, and probably not be able to keep up with the volume, much less make any headway on the backload of trash.
And that’s one tiny section of one state. Multiply that by the size of the world, and we and our children are likely to be drowning in garbage for centuries.
The only way to stop trash is to stop trash people. It takes thousands of times more effort to pick up litter than to avoid littering in the first place. The only solution that works is prevention. We need a federal legislative solution to littering that involves deposits, stiff painful penalties with jail time, and heavy enforcement.
Humanity has fucked this planet. I will live the entirety of my life wallowing in other people’s garbage thanks to that.
we’re gonna need a bigger boat