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The ocean is made of saltwater already, it wasn't made of garbage or plastic. Also salt dissolves in water which is why desalination is needed in the first pla

• orf 7y ago
  Ocean water has a specific level of salt. Increasing that in specific areas, by even a small amount, could have disastrous consequences. Life has evolved in the ocean at a particular saline level. The point is not that plastic dissolves I’m water, it’s that the saline concentration won’t be spread evenly throughout the entire expansive ocean without first increasing it locally.
  • BubRoss 7y ago
    That's not what you said originally, you said it would cluster together like garbage and plastic.
    • orf 7y ago
      Did I? Or did I say it would be unevenly distributed? > Really think for a moment about what are saying must be true. Indeed.
      • BubRoss 7y ago
        > So all that salt/garbage/whatever is increadibly uneavenly distributed and will naturally collect in certain areas.
• stevenhuang 7y ago
  You seem to have glossed over his last paragraph. No one's disputing that the ocean can sink the salt if the salt is evenly distributed. Trouble comes if that's not done properly and we get local ecosystems poisened by high salinity. Which if you think about it, is pretty easy to imagine from these plants pumping the salt to the nearest coastline.