According to this website (https://www.condorferries.co.uk/plastic-in-the-ocean-statistics) 33 billion pounds of plastic enter the ocean each year.
So in the same timeframe that ocean cleanup extracted 25,000 pounds, 2.5 billion pounds were dumped.
I’m not saying its not a worthwhile exercise, but that’s depressing.
Ocean cleanup is also working on systems to prevent plastic from leaving rivers and flowing into the oceans.
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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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.
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.
You should consider the possibility that not everyone is exactly like you, and maybe some people do good things for motives you don’t understand.
A meaningless gesture that accomplishes nothing.
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.
And they took it to a local garbage dump, which then got shipped off to China, and then thrown right back into the ocean.
25000pounds = 11339.8 kg
