• Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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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.

      • PersnickityPenguin
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        1 year ago

        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.