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Report: Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned Up Within 5 Years
Breitbart ^ | 09/08/2024 | Joel B Pollack

Posted on 09/08/2024 6:47:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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7.5 billion to clean up garbage?
1 posted on 09/08/2024 6:47:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The U.S. should probably throw in a couple bucks. Not more than a couple though. Let China pick up the rest of the bill.


2 posted on 09/08/2024 6:50:47 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is freeloader "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just charge the Asian countries responsible and keep your fingers out of the taxpayers pocket.


3 posted on 09/08/2024 6:51:09 AM PDT by Mastador1
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Report: Great Pacific Chinese Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned Up Within 5 Years
4 posted on 09/08/2024 6:52:30 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Airlift burning EV’s and drop them on the garbage patch. Two problems solved at once. You’re welcome, science.


5 posted on 09/08/2024 6:57:16 AM PDT by Bernard (I just clicked over another tag line, Time to run without for a while.)
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To: Mastador1

Charge the Asian countries to clean it up? I’d say, only if they pay in advance. Otherwise, let them clean it up.


6 posted on 09/08/2024 7:06:24 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
The patch is one of the world's most pressing environmental problems — one that Vice President Kamala Harris said, incorrectly, can be addressed by banning plastic straws (a policy, like many, that she since claims to have reversed).

7 posted on 09/08/2024 7:08:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Just wait for it to drop to the bottom of the ocean.. Where millions of years worth of sh*t lays undisturbed... The ocean is big... It can handle it.


8 posted on 09/08/2024 7:16:20 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://abc11.com/post/ships-sent-clean-great-pacific-garbage-patch-middle-ocean-return-san-francisco-california/15277136/

Once the trash is pulled from the sea, it’s then sorted on the ships and ultimately recycled.


9 posted on 09/08/2024 7:16:43 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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This is from a file (drove me to distraction, I thought I’d posted it) about something entirely else.

https://marine-debris-site-s3fs.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/styles/1400x300/public/GPmap_2010_NOAAMDP.jpg?VersionId=gOaQ2OP1cwh7QGnykYopWJ5jynQI.mGx&itok=m6IRP5y1

https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/discover-marine-debris/garbage-patches

Marine Debris Program
Office of Response and Restoration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Oversimplified graphic of “garbage patches” in the North Pacific Ocean.
Garbage Patches


10 posted on 09/08/2024 7:22:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Get all the little school kiddies suing their parents for destroying THEIR planet together, load them into dinghies and have them get out there and pick that crap up! Call it a protest and give them a little “extra credit”.


11 posted on 09/08/2024 7:26:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is freeloader "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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“The patch is one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems“

Not being contentious here but why? What’s it doing besides floating there.?Some kind of hazard to shipping?


12 posted on 09/08/2024 7:33:59 AM PDT by TalBlack (Fight Fight Fight America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJdMog6T0)
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You mean that garbage patch that’s the size of Texas yet there are no maps that can point to it, and no pictures of it. That one, right?


13 posted on 09/08/2024 7:38:15 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tow it back to China


14 posted on 09/08/2024 7:50:34 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s because they got a quote from our garbage company.


15 posted on 09/08/2024 7:54:11 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowd)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A noble thought to clean it up, but then do what with it? Bury it? Burn it? Hope some microbes eat it? What’s the consequence of each of those? Somehow recycle it? Who pays for it and when? This will have to be an ongoing effort, not some one time thing.


16 posted on 09/08/2024 7:56:48 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

10 years — $7.5 billion
5 years — $4 billion

Ok, let’s follow that pricing plan a bit more…

2.5 years — $2 billion
1 year — $1 billion
6 months — $0.5 billion
3 months — $0.25 billion
1 month — $100 million


17 posted on 09/08/2024 7:57:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowd)
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It’s not only China and Japan, most of the plastic waste comes from third world countries that use rivers as a sewage system and garbage disposal. Before any cleanup can be successful, they have got to be convinced to stop dumping plastic into the rivers that lead to the ocean.


18 posted on 09/08/2024 8:02:24 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

They are causing to problem. They aren’t interested in cleaning it up.


19 posted on 09/08/2024 8:03:36 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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To: SunkenCiv

From Wikipedia:

In a 2021 study, researchers who examined plastic from the patch identified more than 40 animal species on 90 percent of the debris they studied.[45][46] Discovery of a thriving ecosystem of life at the Great Pacific garbage patch in 2022 suggested that cleaning up garbage here may adversely remove this plastisphere.[47]

A 2023 study found that the plastic is home to coastal species surviving in the open ocean and reproducing.[48] These coastal species, including jellyfish and sponges, are commonly found in the western Pacific coast and are surviving alongside open-ocean species on the plastic.[48] Some scientists are concerned that this mix of coastal and open-ocean species may result in unnatural or “neopelagic communities,” in which coastal creatures could be competing with or even consuming open-ocean species.[48]


20 posted on 09/08/2024 8:11:59 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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