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That line of thought never occured to me. Everything is finite, why would throwing trash in the sea not immediately pollute it? Its like those that never bother
by justtopost 8y ago
That line of thought never occured to me. Everything is finite, why would throwing trash in the sea not immediately pollute it? Its like those that never bother to think of where their trash (or 'recycling') actually goes. (Throwing things 'away'...) My father, a man of few words, summed it up thusly; Don't shit where you eat.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoThe volume of the Earth's oceans[1] is ~1.3B cubic km (or ~320M cubic miles). So I'd say what's more amazing/appalling is that we have managed to dump so much plastic into them that it is easily noticeable... 1: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanwater.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanwater.html
- GW150914 8y agoThe volume is incredible, but I suspect that ignoring most of the depth is useful for microplastic, which is buoyant. You’ll still have to consider some depth, vertical mixing will be a factor, but it will still be a fraction of the total volume.
- growlist 8y agoThis is when I was a kid! My thoughts were along the lines of: 'surely it can't be good to throw all this rubbish in the sea, but what do I know, I'm just a kid'.