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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.”
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This story is *about* rubbish
A large part of the world still worries about the next meal , roof overhead and the other basic necessities of life . Garbage is the last thing on their mind . Some of them live in or near garbage . As long as these populations donâ(TM)t get the bare basics , they ( where a considerable chunk of plastic waste comes from) wont relate to the concerns of the so called developed world.
"Ocean Cleanup Project..."
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- "Was about time. Good news!"
"...Completes..."
- "Already done?!. Great news!
"...Great Pacific Garbage..."
- "OMAIGOD!
"...Patch Research Expedition..."
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They claim to have found a way to clean it up in ten years or less. I'm skeptical, but if it works, great!
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
"Completes Great Pacific Garbage Patch Research Expedition"
Go back to doing nothing about any problem. Like you were before hearing about people doing something about this one.
As a liberal I'm all for the cleanup effort, but as a Jim Henson fan, I'm a bit sad.
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with a teaspoon while the water is on full blast. Plastic needs to be stopped at the source otherwise companies/organizations like Ocean Cleanup Project are just making well paying jobs for their "non-profit" organization. I'm just going to call it what it is, a sham. Don't believe me, read what other scientists think. Frankly it might do more harm than good in that people will perceive the problem over and continue to use plastic with reckless abandon. When the reality is that there is microscopic plastic soup that exists 10m from the surface ocean that the Ocean Cleanup Project does not address. There are very few actual independent scientists or any conservation organizations that are for this group. Yet the media still keeps hyping it up--I guess maybe to assuage their guilt of using plastic. I don't know.
There are a lot of birds, turtles and fish killed by plastic debris.
But the bird carcass filled with plastic in the first seconds of the video is very suspicious.
That amount of plastic does not fit in its digestive system and a much smaller amount would kill the bird.
Be careful, this may hurt your cause.
Let's take these two statements.
You can't build a 3000 km wall across the US southern border.
You can't build a system to clean up the garbage patch with a circumference of 3000 km.
It's interesting that people will agree with only one.
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"we just found lots and lots of plastic"
These guys sound really sciencey. Couldn't they give their measurements in layman terms?
If I had a DeLorean... I would probably only drive it from time to time.
And while we're at it, why don't we also stop burning fossil fuels, quit using man made chemicals in agriculture, and stop worldwide violence. I think all those ideas are much more obtainable than stop using plastics.
Actually, comments like yours are the kind of "media hype" they've been getting... It seems to consist of more unsupported criticism than anything else. And more to the point, all the criticisms have been soundly addressed, in a nice convenient list, LAST YEAR:
http://www.theoceancleanup.com...
You'll find a lot of the crap you're spouting is already in there, and already debunked.
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Ocean Cleanup Project addressed these issues. But don't let that stop your standard libertarian slashdot cosplay engineer hard guy act.
Wasn't there a Garbage Patch craze a while back?
Their project hopes to recover eleventeen metric shittonnes of plastic and a few billion $.
In the past the right has proposed incremental changes to the immigration system
You mean incremental changes like self deportation, building a huge wall, etc? Yeah, let's not pretend the US political right has been anything remotely resembling rational about this issue - not to mention routinely racist (see Trump). Their general stance has largely been one of xenophobic hysteria with a complete disregard for why the problem exists in the first place or the economic consequences of their stance on the issue. Let's also not ignore the fact that most illegal immigrants coming into the US are Hispanic/Latino and that the Hispanic/Latino citizens eligible to vote tend to vote democrat and they (mostly) oppose the policies espoused by the US political right. The republicans will need the Hispanic vote but they keep shooting themselves in the foot on the issue.
Furthermore we DO need comprehensive immigration reform. The problem is that the left and right disagree on what the reforms should be and there hasn't been much willingness to compromise on the issue from either side.
People are coming to the US because there is economic opportunity. If there is economic opportunity where they are coming from then there is little reason for them to come. Want to solve the illegal immigration problem? Help Mexico and Central America build up their economy and it will (mostly) magically disappear. But illegal immigration is NOT what you should worry about. What you should worry about is if they stop trying to come to the US. That means economic opportunity has gone elsewhere.
I know your ravenous hatred blinds you, but churches have had the most success in making the world a better place.
I would say exactly the opposite. Organized religion is the foundation of countless wars, conflict and suffering. Organized religion is nothing more than a cynical means of controlling people and exercising power via irrational and unproveable beliefs. The fact that they do some charitable works does not begin to excuse the harm humanity has suffered because of the tribalism that results from organized religion. I don't care at all if people want to believe in some bizarre ideas of their own but they should keep them to themselves, particularly around children. I have a huge problem with people who think we should base public policy on their religion and who think I should have to share their weird ideas sometimes literally at gunpoint.
Most hospitals and universities were started by churches.
Demonstrably not true on both counts. Certainly plenty of hospitals were started by churches but demonstrably not the majority. 20% of hospitals in the US have a religious affiliation and the majority of those are catholic institutions. And most universities have largely secular origins if you actually bother to look. Furthermore these charitable acts by churches are anything but altruistic. They are nothing more than a thinly veiled marketing effort. They have the clear ulterior motive of proselytizing in order to swell the ranks of their tribe. It is usually a soft sell but it is a sell nonetheless.
Churches care about addicts, unwed mothers and many other people that the world throws away.
So do plenty of secular organizations. And the secular organizations don't do so with the ulterior motive of trying to convert people to join their superstitious cult exactly at the time when those people are most vulnerable.
The issue with the Mexican and most Central American economies is graft and corruption at the Governmental level.
As if those things don't exist in the US....
Short of overthrowing those Governments - there's not a lot we can do other than what we've done (open markets - NAFTA).
Not even remotely true that we have done everything we can. Our relationships with countries to our south is anything but friendly or productive. A lot of those countries don't like us at all because our policies do nothing to help them.
Maybe we should try better border enforcement and encourage the local populace to institute change at home, rather than run away...
You can build the walls as high as you want and it WON'T MATTER. If there is money to be made they will keep coming. And frankly spending vast resources policing the border is hugely wasteful and will never solve the problem. They're ALREADY HERE in vast numbers. We have a far larger and less policed border with Canada and guess what? Canada is prosperous so there is no meaningful immigration problem. But the folks south of our border aren't white and don't speak English so we aren't so willing to help them.
As for encouraging the immigrants home countries to institute change is exactly what I suggested. You have to help them build their economies which in turn will spur changes. Right now the US trade policies are anything but helpful or friendly.
You probably think that because you're a conservative Libertarian, which means you don't believe in doing anything about anything if it doesn't make somebody a dollar. The Ferengi were invented to parody you guys.
I have for many years and continue to avoid plastic as much as humanly possible, and you know what? For all the not using plastic bags, buying goods not packaged in plastic etc etc, I have barely touched the volume of plastic used to support my life.
You know those precious few goods you can find in shops that aren't packed in plastic? They come in on a crate wrapped in miles of plastic wrap to keep them waterproof (because, you know, keeping them out of the rain and factoring in a small fraction of losses is apparently just too hard).
All those energy efficient long life bulbs? Needlessly packed in tough plastic shells and shrink-wrapped in plastic when a simple corrugated cardboard tube would do the job just fine *and* be genuinely environmentally friendly.
And don't forget the apparent need for any tech to come in a package 10x larger than the device itself, often as not with parts kept in their own little plastic bags, superfluous plastic boxy bits and the obligatory plastic shrink wrapping.
So yeah, I agree that we need to cut off the source of all the plastic waste, but until we can stop companies that appear to be competing to see who can use the most plastic I don't hold out much hope.