Will this be our biggest ever river catch?

Re:Will this be our biggest ever river catch? by navane on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:06PM (#40108776)

Ironically this is what people said when they were focusing on cleaning the ocean: "they should focus on rivers, that's how most trash gets into the ocean".

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Re:Will this be our biggest ever river catch? by woleium on Sunday April 21, 2024 @05:50PM (#40109538)

i read that a lot of ocean plastic comes from the fishing industry

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Re:Will this be our biggest ever river catch? by stephen_g on Sunday April 21, 2024 @10:45PM (#40111048)

Well, if you watch their videos most of what is caught is from the fishing industry, but it's probably a difference in durability. Plastic from rivers etc. are going to fairly quickly break down into (polluting) microplastics because the plastic is pretty thin, so it's best to stop that at the rivers, while a lot of what they are catching in the garbage patch is from the fishing industry because it's all made of thicker plastic and would take a lot longer to break down.

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