• Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s just meaningless greenwashing.

    A feel-good gesture that ultimately does squat in helping anyone or anything but it sure makes entitled people feel superior about themselves… I cleaned up the oceans, praise me!

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        1 year ago

        Even at 100,000x all you would be doing is treading water. This is how big the problem is and how utterly pointless this particular clean up effort was.

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          Virtually all the plastic in the oceans comes from two sources: River waste from seven different rivers in Asia, and fishing nets that are discarded by fishing trawlers.

          Stop those at their source and you will eliminate something like 90% of the plastic waste in the ocean.

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      no, you’re wrong. This organization is basically still experimenting, and they have come a long way over the years. There are also efforts to trap plastics at mouths of rivers to try and slow down polluting the ocean. There is hope yet.

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      1 year ago

      Posted above, but that 33 billion is there to scare ppl, which also has the effect of giving people like you excuses to be synical.

      The difference is it’s 33 billion pounds, which is ~14 million metric TONS.

      If you do the math it start looking achievable, and this is just some startup that gets its funding through charity. Imagine what the worlds governments could do taking this seriously. We could clean the ocean within a generation, which is amazing considering.

      There’s a lot of greenwashing out there, this isn’t it. You might want to look up the definition of greenwashing.

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        Did you just convert the units and magically now think that makes this any more achievable?! LOL

        You’d need 100,000x the effort to simply tread water. Not to eliminate waste, mind you, but to simply keep up with what is dumped in each year.

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          Yes, it’s called perspective. 33 BilLiOn pounds sound like an insurmountable amount but it’s not. It’s 14 million TONS, the unit of measure the boat is using to assess how much it’s picking up. As I said, in the end thats a few thousand boats out there for less than a couple decades, assuming we don’t reduce our waste or make these machines more efficient, which isn’t likely. 2 decades isn’t a big cleanup time compared to how long we’ve been dumping shit in.

          I think the math confused you because you don’t need 100,000 times the effort.

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            Did you miss the part where there are 33 BILLION pounds of plastic added to the oceans EACH YEAR?! This isn’t a one-and-done problem. That is 2 decades of clean-up for EACH YEAR of waste dumped into the oceans. You are completely missing the scope of the problem. By orders of magnitude.

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              Yes, the 14 million TONS is the 33 billion pounds added each year. We can get to 0 with the above math in no time, and get the total (the other 200 million) down in a couple decades. It’s you that’s not following the post. This is without us reducing the total total output of plastic in oceans, which we are and will continue to do.