Ping!
Good for Trump. We have ceded the environment as an issue to the enemy for too long. We need to step up and make it clear that conservationism and care for God’s creation is absolutely an important conservative value.
[ 90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from just 10 rivers ]
Aren’t most of them from .... CHYNA?
I wonder if they still let the places along the shore in Dunoon Scotland run their sewer lines into the Sea Loch there. Or other villages over there.
not to worry:
https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/pacific-trials-the-gateway-to-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/
track it:
https://www.theoceancleanup.com/system-001-old/
hattip Eddie01:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3686171/posts
The ocean is in bad shape and it will get worse. It’s not that we shouldn’t take care of the environment, it’s why and for who. We should take care of the environment because we live in it. We should do it for ourselves and for the benefit of lining some liberal’s pocket.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-pacific-ocean-cleanup-20180908-story.html
Two Texases' worth of plastic is floating in the Pacific. A new device will spend 20 years trying to clean it.
It takes some effort to recycle just my plastic waste, and I use tapwater for cooking and drinking. It takes some effort to clean and dry it rather than just toss in the trash like I did for years. Glad to make the effort though.
Single use bottles make me mad. I drink this Pure Leaf tea in some really attractive bottles, wish I could reuse them for something. The bottoms are nice and square, and I thought it might be nice to keep planters tidy by poking drainage holes and filling with potting soil, fit the bottles in with plants or seeds and cover with more soil. Would have to cut the tops of the bottles off with my hot blade.
Could winter sow them too, partially cutting the tops and leaving the caps off like they do with milk jugs (and I did a lot of it but haven't the last few winters).
Hell, yeah!!!
About time.
Getting the plastic crap out of those ten rivers will be about as easy as getting China to put effective scrubbers on their coal fired boilers.
Trump doing more for the environment and Mother Earth than dems ever imagined - by going after actual problems that can actually be solved because they really are man-made....
Might that be a solution?
Just increase the rate of decomposition of plastics once discarded?
It’s mind boggling how some countries still poop in their drinking waters and dump their garbage into their rivers and oceans where they fish. Obamy was all into globull warming but ignored the pollution in the oceans which is something that can actually been fixed.
The US and Europe do not contribute much to this problem, but we all have to live with it. Africa and Asia need to clean up their act and we need to lean on them to stop being so insanely irresponsible.