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How would locals know where the garbage came from?

• bdamm 8y ago
  Garbage can sometimes be identified. Think floating bottles with intact labels, yoghurt containers with a specific language, etc. anything so tiny that it can’t be identified is almost by definition part of the global flow because it takes time for plastic to break down.
  • searealist 8y ago
    ... and locals are using this logic?
    • Blackthorn 8y ago
      ...why wouldn't they be?
      • WalterSear 8y ago
        They are all commenters on hacker news.
• SerLava 8y ago
  I'm not caught up with the microplastics problem. But I suspect the locals had read testimony from scientists studying the problem. People really give a shit about pollution in Hawai'i. It also seems very unlikely that the quantity would be there without ocean currents bringing it in from the big offenders like China. Hawai'i has a pretty small population of people who are widely very concientious about polluting the ocean, compared to most other people in the world.