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Here's a video of micro plastic on my local beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAojzv8V84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAojzv8V84 How the hell can yo

Here's a video of micro plastic on my local beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAojzv8V84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTAojzv8V84 How the hell can you clean this up without a thousand people using tweezers? You can't get a backhoe down to the beach. Every tide brings more of the stuff in. It's so overwhelming that it seems pointless even attempting to pick it up. There's f-ing miles and miles of it.

drawkbox 9y ago
Definitely a great job for robots that are like beach and water roombas [1]. They can side as mapping the oceans better and report other data. These types of robots still need to be widespread and better but that is probably the only way to tackle this problem. Other solutions in the water are being worked on that scrape it off with a large line [2] or a boat like Mr Trash Wheel [3] [1] https://www.popsci.com/waste-shark-is-garbage-collecting-sea-drone https://www.popsci.com/waste-shark-is-garbage-collecting-sea... [2] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29631332 http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29631332 [3] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/mr-trash-wheels-professor-trash-wheels-baltimore-harbor-ocean-trash-pickup/ https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/mr-trash-wheels-...