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I wonder if we could build a huge floating "island of plants" in the great pacific garbage patch?

• bell-cot 3y ago
  This method is for microplastics. The garbage patch is not microplastics.
  • __float 3y ago
    I thought most "garbage patches" in the ocean were actually made up mostly of microplastics. I can't find a great source for this now, but a quick Google gave https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-paci... which says: > Even satellite imagery doesn’t show a giant patch of garbage. The microplastics of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can simply make the water look like a cloudy soup. This soup is intermixed with larger items, such as fishing gear and shoes.
  • sva_ 3y ago
    Probably slowly breaking down into microplastics though
  • hammock 3y ago
    "For many people, the idea of a 'garbage patch' conjures up images of an island of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches are almost entirely made up of tiny bits of plastic, called microplastics. Microplastics can’t always be seen by the naked eye. Even satellite imagery doesn’t show a giant patch of garbage. The microplastics of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can simply make the water look like a cloudy soup. This soup is intermixed with larger items, such as fishing gear and shoes. "The seafloor beneath the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may also be an underwater trash heap. Oceanographers and ecologists recently discovered that about 70 percent of marine debris actually sinks to the bottom of the ocean" (https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-paci...)
    • sva_ 3y ago
      You should link the source if you're quoting stuff. (Posted below: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-paci...)
      • soperj 3y ago
        They probably didn't know that ChatGTP was just taking stuff wholesale from nationalgeographic.
    • jjulius 3y ago
      This entire comment, FYI, is copy-pasted from this[0]. [0]https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-paci...
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