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No, you’re misunderstanding the scale and making assumptions. It’s widely reported and well known that water bottles polluting the ocean is coming from consumer
by dahart 2y ago
No, you’re misunderstanding the scale and making assumptions. It’s widely reported and well known that water bottles polluting the ocean is coming from consumer goods - the volume of plastic trash in the ocean is far far bigger than the entire fishing and all boating industries combined globally. https://plasticoceans.org/the-facts/ https://plasticoceans.org/the-facts/
Maybe you never heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
It’s a bit shocking to see first hand. Get out there and look around, and you’ll realize this isn’t a tiny problem caused by boaters.
- asdff 2y agoFrom the wikipedia: “An open access study published in 2022 concluded that 75% up to 86% of the plastic pollution is from fishing and agriculture“ And also in that article it mentions you can’t really see or detect the patch yourself without specific tooling for it as the fragments are often quite small and dispersed. You can’t use satellites to see it either as such.
- dahart 2y agoThe preceding paragraph says the exact opposite, but I can take the point that multiple sources are saying fishing trash is significant. It doesn’t sound like the trash visible near Mexico is the same as what they call the Pacific Garbage Patch. Either way, I cannot believe that what I saw was fishing boat trash, there was far, far too much of it. Maybe it’s beachgoer waste, maybe it’s industrial waste. Anyway, you should go look yourself before forming an opinion!