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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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