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Someone else pointed out that it might be hard to come up with an effective filter that also doesn't negatively impact the marine life.
by wuliwong 9y ago
Someone else pointed out that it might be hard to come up with an effective filter that also doesn't negatively impact the marine life.
- burke 9y agoPresumably a large fraction of the plastic would float at the surface. It would surprise me if some clever device to filter the top 1-2 feet of a large river couldn’t be built without impacting marine life too severely. Or maybe I’m wrong about a majority floating.
- severine 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916317
- contingencies 9y agoThere's not a huge amount of marine life in some of those rivers. For others, like the Mekong, they are expansive delta regions rather than simple rivermouths which would prohibit the approach.