Ocean Clean-Up Removes 103 Tons of Trash from the Pacific

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Most of the 80,000 tons of plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is thought to come from commercial fishing and maritime operations.

Bullshit. This is Agenda21 propaganda to eliminate commercial fishing.

Global Holodomor coming to your neighborhood this winter.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not really, this has more to do with China's fishing fleets and their lack of regulation. There's no reason everyone shouldn't be on the same page here: impose population limitations so that food can be sustainable; and practice sustainable agriculture/aquaculture.

[–]SaidOverRed 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

And no one will blame China (and Indochina, India, indonesia, etc) for their massive dumping habits. The US literally gives China money to "take" the trash when they ship back their empty cargo containers that used to have cheaply made products for Americans. And then the Chinese simply dump it into the ocean so they don't have to pay to bury it. Problem solved, right?

[–]wahala[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

While China is a disgusting polluter, they did stop taking waste in 2017. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_waste_import_ban Not sure on the other countries, really.

[–]SaidOverRed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was actually aware of that, but I won't edit the ambiguous mood of my response, since you deserve credit for linking the article.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

China dosent dump our trash in the ocean though. They dump in on land.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not true. There was a big scandal when a Seattle or was it Washington recycling company pretended to take electronic waste like tvs and monitors when in fact they were shipping it over to a Hong Kong company to dismantle. That and the fact that they didn't inform the people working in HK that dismantling by hand was dangerous, there was mercury or something that could cause long term health effects.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I read the maximum density of the great pacific garbage patch is like 10kg of trash per square kilometer... much less dense than I expected. Still messy and could use some cleaning though, but it's not even close to a "garbage island" or anything like that like they sometimes say. But I'm glad to see these people cleaning up the trash that is there!

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They even made a boat to clean beaches.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Beaches are the ocean's natural trash-removal system. I've seen some beaches in the ocean in the caribbean that were insanely covered with trash

[–]wahala[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That is...good? to hear about the density. I just like the idea of cleaning litter. I love the outdoors and would prefer it be clean.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes it's good. I was researching the idea of binding the floating plastic together to create a literal island, but the density is a loooong way from making that possible. It is good though that things aren't as bad as they're portrayed

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Finally people are taking action. Great news.