Posted on 09/12/2022 4:10:01 PM PDT by grundle
STUDY IN ‘SCIENTIFIC REPORTS’ INDICATES 75% TO 86% OF GPGP PLASTIC ATTRIBUTABLE TO OFFSHORE FISHING AND AQUACULTURE ACTIVITIES
MAJORITY OF GPGP FISHING GEAR ORIGINATES FROM THE U.S., CHINA, JAPAN AND THE KOREAN PENINSULA
RESULTS EMPHASIZE THE ESSENTIAL ROLE OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY AND MAJOR FISHING NATIONS IN OCEAN CLEANING
PLASTIC EMISSIONS FROM RIVERS REMAIN BY FAR LARGEST SOURCE OF PLASTIC POLLUTION INTO GLOBAL OCEAN
(Rotterdam — September 1, 2022) The Ocean Cleanup has today published new research in the journal Scientific Reports showing that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is largely composed of fishing-related plastic waste, with 75% to 86% of all plastic waste in the GPGP identified as coming from offshore fishing activity.
Analysis of over 6,000 plastic objects also found that major industrialized fishing nations (including the United States, China, Japan and Korea) are the principal producers of the fishing waste found in the GPGP, an area three times the size of France and the world’s largest accumulation of floating ocean plastic.
At a global level, emissions from rivers remain by far the largest source of plastic pollution into the oceans. However, specifically for the GPGP, this is not the case, and this confirms that the GPGP requires an approach not only involving cleanup and interception; this ‘other source’ of GPGP pollution – i.e., plastic originating from fishing activities – must also be tackled.
The Ocean Cleanup conducted the research on plastic objects and fragments captured in the GPGP during cleaning operations of its System 001/B solution in 2019. Researchers painstakingly investigated the origins, sources and ages of these objects to create the most comprehensive picture of GPGP plastic so far presented, building on The Ocean Cleanup’s previous research, conducted in 2018.
“This research significantly expands our understanding of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,’ said Matthias Egger, Ocean Plastic Researcher at The Ocean Cleanup. ‘In order to solve this problem we need to understand it, and identifying the origins of GPGP plastic is essential to our cleanup efforts, and the efforts of other organizations, to reduce this other source of pollution.”
“To stop the inflow of plastic into our oceans, addressing river emissions – the largest source – must remain core priority” said Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. “However, to ensure our work to clean up the GPGP is truly sustainable, fishing gear inputs must also be stopped. We hope our latest study will enable organizations and the fishing industry itself to address this other source of plastic pollution to the GPGP.”
so they took away plastic bags , LOL
Typical leftist response: BAN FISHING! Anyway, we get our fish at the store . . .
So I guess that means no plastic straws on fishing boats😎😄
It comes from union and mob contracts illegally dumping barges of garbage in the Atlantic to save and pocket and extort money rather than fulfill the terms of the contracts by transporting and dumping the barges out of the NE US into landfills. Wink wink nod nod Say no more. Say no more.
Plastic is combustible, right?
So build some unmanned robotic barges that suck up the plastic and use the energy to power themselves. Maybe some solar panels as supplement.
We still have them here in GA. If gov’t takes them from the stores, I will buy and take my own to the store.
The garbage is from CHYna but the US is always lumped in and named first for their be propaganda hit pieces.
Okay, I’ve lost a lot of lures, but that was mostly in lakes.
This only means one thing they plan to ban fishing but China, Japan and Korea will tell them where to go
And then to make sure all the gear doesn't float around, they should make it out of lead so it sinks to the bottom.
I have been going to West Coast beaches for 45 years and have never seen a net,a float, or a whatever. So... “really littered” might be an overstatement. But I will say that most, if not all of the “lets clean the plastic out of the oceans” organizations are funded and controlled by the fishing industry, so they deflect responsibility very nicely.
How about no plastic boats?
How about no plastic cars?
How about no plastic politicians?
Yeah- not sure if there really is a GPGP. Sure, there are probably patches of trash that accumulate in gyres in the oceans, and we should clean them up, but the articles always make it sound like there are miles upon miles of garbage islands.
When searching, there are lots of pictures of trash in the water, but no proof that there is an enormous floating island of trash.
Sorry. I have already patented the concept of the SEA ROOMBA.
Oh the mysterious great ocean garbage patch that nobody can locate or photograph.
And yeah this “study” sounds really scientific. I wonder how much taxpayer funds these grifter clowns feast on.
The first paragraph is in ALL CAPS, making it difficult to read for near sighted folks like myself, but it can be done.
Just letting you know.
I am firmly in favor of people not littering but punishing the mostly responsible and cuddling the mostly culpable is not going to have a happy result.
Sounds like coal power plants.
The west pees our pants over them and the ChiComs build dozens more every year.
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