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It's not a significant amount. It's important to grasp just how huge the ocean is. This would clean up a pointlessly small fraction of the garbage patch. Not on
by cultus 8y ago
It's not a significant amount. It's important to grasp just how huge the ocean is. This would clean up a pointlessly small fraction of the garbage patch. Not only that, but it would be destroyed in a storm quite quickly, generating even more marine debris.
- mrpopo 8y ago> Not only that, but it would be destroyed in a storm quite quickly, generating even more marine debris. This was mentioned multiple times, but it's even more daring in your comment. How can it be so insignificant and pointless, but at the same time cause of worry for more marine debris?
- cultus 8y agoWell, it's not a significant amount of new plastic on a global scale. However, why does it make sense to spend gobs of money on something that at best won't help and at worst will make things slightly worse? Why not invest in proven strategys, like bag bans or trash collection around populated rivers and bays? An example of this is the Baltimore trash wheel cleaning up the bay. It's cheap and effective, because it cleans up garbage when it is: a) Not broken down to be microscopic. b) Concentrated. I should also point out that they claim they can finance a big part of this by recycling the degraded ocean plastic. I shouldn't have to tell you that that is absolutely whackadoo.