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Any way to identify where that fishing gear is coming from or produced? Obviously anyone from anywhere could be buying it to use and then trashing it.

by loceng 2y ago

Workaccount2 2y ago
Everyone knows who is leaving most of those nets in the ocean.
- Larrikin 2y ago
  So who?
  - lantry 2y ago
    Must be the "Republic of They" that everyone is always talking about. "They are coming here and taking our jobs!", "They are polluting the ocean!", etc
    - loceng 2y ago
      "They are spreading propaganda that it isn't they doing it!"
  - keyringlight 2y ago
    They're likely referring to China, over the past 5+ years there's been a number of articles about how they're taking liberties with the ocean territory of other countries, doing things like turning off transponders to hide, and the vast scale of their fleets.
  - vasco 2y ago
    Here's a 2020 paper (all authors based in the US) "The United States’ contribution of plastic waste to land and ocean" Abstract: > Plastic waste affects environmental quality and ecosystem health. In 2010, an estimated 5 to 13 million metric tons (Mt) of plastic waste entered the ocean from both developing countries with insufficient solid waste infrastructure and high-income countries with very high waste generation. We demonstrate that, in 2016, the United States generated the largest amount of plastic waste of any country in the world (42.0 Mt). Between 0.14 and 0.41 Mt of this waste was illegally dumped in the United States, and 0.15 to 0.99 Mt was inadequately managed in countries that imported materials collected in the United States for recycling. Accounting for these contributions, the amount of plastic waste generated in the United States estimated to enter the coastal environment in 2016 was up to five times larger than that estimated for 2010, rendering the United States’ contribution among the highest in the world https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd0288 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd0288

Any way to identify where that fishing gear is coming from or produced? Obviously anyone from anywhere could be buying it to use and then trashing it.

by loceng 2y ago

Any way to identify where that fishing gear is coming from or produced? Obviously anyone from anywhere could be buying it to use and then trashing it.

Workaccount2 2y ago

Everyone knows who is leaving most of those nets in the ocean.

Larrikin 2y ago
So who?
- lantry 2y ago
  Must be the "Republic of They" that everyone is always talking about. "They are coming here and taking our jobs!", "They are polluting the ocean!", etc
  - loceng 2y ago
    "They are spreading propaganda that it isn't they doing it!"
- keyringlight 2y ago
  They're likely referring to China, over the past 5+ years there's been a number of articles about how they're taking liberties with the ocean territory of other countries, doing things like turning off transponders to hide, and the vast scale of their fleets.
- vasco 2y ago
  Here's a 2020 paper (all authors based in the US) "The United States’ contribution of plastic waste to land and ocean" Abstract: > Plastic waste affects environmental quality and ecosystem health. In 2010, an estimated 5 to 13 million metric tons (Mt) of plastic waste entered the ocean from both developing countries with insufficient solid waste infrastructure and high-income countries with very high waste generation. We demonstrate that, in 2016, the United States generated the largest amount of plastic waste of any country in the world (42.0 Mt). Between 0.14 and 0.41 Mt of this waste was illegally dumped in the United States, and 0.15 to 0.99 Mt was inadequately managed in countries that imported materials collected in the United States for recycling. Accounting for these contributions, the amount of plastic waste generated in the United States estimated to enter the coastal environment in 2016 was up to five times larger than that estimated for 2010, rendering the United States’ contribution among the highest in the world https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd0288 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd0288