Pulling 20k Lbs of Plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Re:Pulling 20k Lbs of Plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage... by hawaiianbrah on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:41AM (#29146879)

The scale of this depresses me. They removed 10 tons in this test, but we add 12 million tons… A year…

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Re:Pulling 20k Lbs of Plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage... by dzhiurgis on Monday November 08, 2021 @05:30AM (#29147900)

Willing to bet they've used similar amount of fuel to collect that.

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Re:Pulling 20k Lbs of Plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage... by Mizza on Monday November 08, 2021 @04:57AM (#29147703)

In their own words, the goal of this mission was not to collect plastic, but to collect data. I hope that this test will help them scale up further.

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Re:Pulling 20k Lbs of Plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage... by koheripbal on Monday November 08, 2021 @10:33AM (#29150300)

Prevention is the correct strategy to scale up, not cleaning up what someone else is dumping.

It is odd these programs do not even name where this trash is coming from.

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Re:Pulling 20k Lbs of Plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage... by morjom on Monday November 08, 2021 @12:59PM (#29152098)

Rivers. Which are being slowly populated by Ocean Cleanups interceptor cleaners.

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Re:Pulling 20k Lbs of Plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage... by statguy on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:39AM (#29147256)

or they removed the amount of plastic that we add to the oceans in 14 seconds!

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