Posted on 05/16/2019 5:48:56 PM PDT by chief lee runamok
I want to see the guy that counted them.
Thanks China!
How did they come up with that specific number? Somebody count them?
They had to count them all. Now they know how much trash it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
Darn good question. How do you even estimate it?
Looking at those images I don’t know how anyone can even comment on this thread trying to divert attention from a huge problem. Comments such as “how do they know? Who counted them?” Are diversionary defensive tactics utilized to discredit its source rather than take issue with what is occurring. Even in the face of images that slaps anyone with sense across the face, ideology and dogma rule the day. Your images couldn’t be any more clear.
Ideology is dangerous and has no place in civil discourse or debate and is a sickness that should be squashed. Ideology in its purest form is what ended many lives in Jonestown.
The amazing part is that about 62% of the pieces of trash say Fosters on them.../s
It takes 450 years for an aluminum can to decompose. A plastic bottle never.
I’m not a green weenie however no one has to be to see those images are disturbing and the issue needs to be addressed as a major priority in that country. We’ve had decades to develop technology that would eliminate the aluminum can and find a better encasement than plastic. Aluminum and plastics definitely have their uses and are important. However their overwhelming common use and the one that’s been the most destructive “soft drinks” should be addressed.
That’s a lot of Democrat politicians hanging out in one place.
Oh please. It’s 413 million, tops!
using math and science they take one square of trash and extrapolate?
like counting crowd at the inauguration/s
Those tiny bits of plastic, glass, metal, and wood have mostly been ground up due to the wave action on the beach, which is how the sand that forms the beach was itself created. The glass, metal, and plastic will join the sand as a part of the beach over time, and ultimately be buried in sediment. In that state the trash does not pose any particular risk to people, animals, or plants. The ground up glass, for example, ends up being the exact same thing as the sand.
So we are seeing nature turning trash into a beach and land.
I think we can all agree that wholesale dumping of trash into rivers and the ocean is a dumb idea. Hopefully the people who do that in India, China, and other Asian countries will learn to stop doing so. Something like 90% or more of the trash found in the ocean comes from a few rivers in Asia.
I doubt people commenting on this thread are trying to divert attention from the problem, since reading about things like this does nothing to change the situation anyway. If you want to do something about it, head for India or China, or the other countries where ocean trash originates and work on convincing the people there to stop putting trash in their rivers.
There are also weaknesses in the method used to estimate the amount of trash present, since the density of materials varies widely, and the researchers created their estimates based on a sampling methodology. The conclusions made by the authors may not be accurate, but without a careful analysis of their methodology for selecting sample locations it is difficult to know.
Apparently the wave action on beaches grinds up plastic just like it grinds up glass and rocks. That's not surprising since plastic is softer than rock.
More than 60% of the estimated 414 million pieces of trash are fragments of plastic, metal, and glass less than 5mm across according to the researchers.
Is there a Malaysian airliner underneath all that junk?
Arlo, is that you on the Group W bench?
Every time the rivers of Asia and the islands flood their trash washes out to sea.
Cocos Islands
Keeling
The Territory of Cocos Islands is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka. It is part of Southeast Asia and is in the Southern Hemisphere. The territory’s dual name reflects that the islands have historically been known as either the Cocos Islands or the Keeling Islands.Wikipedia
Not sure what your basis for this claim is, but storms and wave action can erode beaches and put this debris back into the ocean,
More to the point, what about all of the debris that didn’t make it to the island and is being ingested by or entangling aquatic wildlife?
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