Posted on 09/08/2024 6:47:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large floating accumulation of debris in the Pacific Ocean, can be cleaned up within 10 years at a cost of $7.5 billion — or within five years with a more aggressive strategy costing $4 billion.
That’s according to the Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization that has led the fight to remove the dangerous plastic from the Pacific — most of which, it says, consists of discarded fishing equipment from Japan and China.
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).
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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.
Just charge the Asian countries responsible and keep your fingers out of the taxpayers pocket.
Airlift burning EV’s and drop them on the garbage patch. Two problems solved at once. You’re welcome, science.
Charge the Asian countries to clean it up? I’d say, only if they pay in advance. Otherwise, let them clean it up.
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).
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.
Once the trash is pulled from the sea, it’s then sorted on the ships and ultimately recycled.
This is from a file (drove me to distraction, I thought I’d posted it) about something entirely else.
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
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”.
“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?
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?
Tow it back to China
That’s because they got a quote from our garbage company.
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.
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
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.
They are causing to problem. They aren’t interested in cleaning it up.
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]
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