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.”

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Re: Garbage what?

[kenh]

Here in the U.S. we have a problem with our immigration system - this is something everyone involved (Left and Right) agrees is a problem.

In the past the right has proposed incremental changes to the immigration system, only to be shut down by the Left's insistence that we need 'Comprehensive' immigration reform, not small, piecemeal changes around the edges...

We can't enforce e-verify, because we need comprehensive reform.

We can't secure the border, because we need comprehensive reform.

We can't deport illegals, because we need comprehensive reform.

Etc.

We have seen this same tactic play out in tax code reform and in the case of healthcare the Left got their way and rammed thru 'comprehensive' reform legislation that was so broad in it's scope that we are still struggling to implement the majority of it's changes - this has left many to be skeptical of 'comprehensive' reform measures.