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Ocean Cleanup Project Completes Great Pacific Garbage Patch Research Expedition
hypnosec writes: The reconnaissance mission of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, dubbed the Mega Expedition by Ocean Clean, has been concluded. The large-scale cleanup of the area is set to begin in 2020. The primary goal of the Mega Expedition was to accurately determine how much plastic is floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This was the first time large pieces of plastic, such as ghost nets and Japanese tsunami debris, have been quantified. “I’ve studied plastic in all the world’s oceans, but never seen any area as polluted as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” said Dr. Julia Reisser, Lead Oceanographer at The Ocean Cleanup. “With every trawl we completed, thousands of miles from land, we just found lots and lots of plastic.”
What is this idea that we can only work on the biggest problem? Yes there are bigger problems, should we all move to Syria to solve that problem?
Ocean debris is a huge problem, it kills lots of animals suffering a painful and unnecessary death.
Even more so, this project can pay for itself, the plastic can be sold for recycling.
If you're worried about people wasting their time, go to a weapons manufacturer or a church, don't bs people who are actually trying to make the world a better place.
Thank you, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and so many others, for courageously defending humanity, my freedom and more!
Trash is an habitat for a lot of marine species? Thank god we're around, otherwise hermit crabs would be facing extinction.
And which bacteria are eating extremely high molecular weight polymers? The ones you dream about, certainly.
Stop vomiting stupid arguments. Trash, kills more animals (stuffing their stomachs, preventing them from breathing, etc.) than the few it helps. Sure, sunken boats may be awesome for marine wildlife, but it's not like there wasn't any wildlife around before we overfished it. And bacteria don't eat plastic. They may, at best, eat the microscopic pieces into which plastic broken down after years on the sun and being ground around against sand, rocks, or other debris. And even that is very up to debate. Just because they eat oil, it doesn't mean they'll eat a thousand times longer chain which has a totally different chemical structure. And yes, I'm a chemist.