Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic particles from water

Re:Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic partic... by djtriptych on Saturday January 16, 2021 @12:05AM (#25800206)

900M sounds like a lot, but how many "particles" or plastic are there in the ocean. I'd have to think.. quadrillions at least?

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Re:Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic partic... by Bombthecat on Saturday January 16, 2021 @05:36AM (#25801411)

I think a study said, that by 2045? Or was it 2025? There is more plastic than fish in the ocean. Go figure.

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Re:Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic partic... by pwagland on Saturday January 16, 2021 @06:45AM (#25801658)

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/will-plastic-really-...

That's not to say that it isn't true, just that the study is somewhat flawed.

To quote from the link:

  There’s no question that accumulating ocean plastic is a
  problem—but simple factoids can mask the fact that we still
  have a lot to learn about what’s in the world’s oceans.

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Re:Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic partic... by Bombthecat on Saturday January 16, 2021 @08:52AM (#25802154)

Sooo? Buisness as usual and ignore the problem?

> written from my phone, full of plastic.

Oh the irony.

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Re:Seagrass 'Neptune balls’ sieve millions of plastic partic... by rfrey on Saturday January 16, 2021 @09:44AM (#25802475)

>Sooo? Buisness as usual and ignore the problem?

pwagland never said anything close to that. It is the opposite of conversation to instantly lump anybody who says anything out-of-catechism into an extreme, mortal-enemy-to-the-cause bucket.

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