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The scale of this depresses me. They removed 10 tons in this test, but we add 12 million tons… A year…
by hawaiianbrah 5y ago
The scale of this depresses me. They removed 10 tons in this test, but we add 12 million tons… A year…
- statguy 5y agoor they removed the amount of plastic that we add to the oceans in 14 seconds!
- Mizza 5y agoIn their own words, the goal of this mission was not to collect plastic, but to collect data. I hope that this test will help them scale up further.
- koheripbal 5y agoPrevention is the correct strategy to scale up, not cleaning up what someone else is dumping. It is odd these programs do not even name where this trash is coming from.
- morjom 5y agoRivers. Which are being slowly populated by Ocean Cleanups interceptor cleaners.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoWilling to bet they've used similar amount of fuel to collect that.