A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the Arctic

Re:A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the... by pyromine on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:06PM (#14162284)

I mean, even when put in the terms of 5 empty waterbottles per square kilometer is still an astounding amount of pollution.

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Re:A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the... by pbreit on Friday April 21, 2017 @01:15AM (#14163251)

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. 5 bottles in a square kilometer is practically none.

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Re:A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the... by lstyls on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:29AM (#14163700)

Maybe we can both agree that the human brain is pretty terrible at judging proportions such as these. I can see both of your points. I'll trust the people who dedicate their lives' work on this one over my intuition, however.

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Re:A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the... by pbreit on Friday April 21, 2017 @02:26PM (#14168004)

I wouldn't. The "experts" are frequently overly alarming and wrong.

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