Posted on 10/20/2022 7:12:10 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
With an estimated surface area of over 600,000 square miles, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is the largest plastic accumulation zone in the world.
Located halfway between Hawaii and California, the GPGP is estimated to contain a whopping 2.41 million tonnes of plastic – and is continuing to grow.
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“And we picked up 10 of ‘em. Yay us! We are so good and pure”
Some people are not happy unless they are not happy.
Anyway, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
I have staff in Lahore (Pakistan) that say it has gotten very polluted. They said they keep trying to keep parrots and other birds for the kids in their care but they keep dying off.
I didn’t see any straws or rings for soda cans.
“They should spend less time and money on the climate hoax and more time on real pollution like this.”
^^THIS^^
That is one reason they are able to produce less costly goods than us. Yet we ship our factories over there.
Scientists analsyed 573 kilograms of dry hard plastic debris that they collected with help from The Ocean Cleanup organization in 2019 and found that more than a quarter of the fragments were from ‘abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear’ (known as ALDFG).
This category includes things such as oyster spacers, eel traps, lobster and fish tags, along with plastic floats and buoys.
‘Here we show that most floating plastics in the North Pacific subtropical gyre can be traced back to five industrialized fishing nations,’ data scientist Laurent Lebreton and colleagues wrote.
Out of 232 plastic objects examined by researchers with clues to their origins, about two-thirds were made in Japan or China.
Another ten percent were made in South Korea, 6.5 percent came from the United States, 5.6 percent from Taiwan and 4.7 percent came from Canada.
So not plastic grocery bags and Styrofoam cups from the US?
Up here in northern New England they burn most of the household trash now. Whellabrator Technologies operates multiple facilities where they burn the trash. This boils water, creates steam, turns a turbine and generates electricity. They run radio commercials with this catchy jingle of a woman singing “don’t put Mercury in the trash”.
This is because most of the land fills around here are full. So the only thing ending up in the landfill is construction debris.
In many cases plastic bottles are used for things that were commonly wrapped in paper products. Remember the bar of soap? the box of powdered laundry detergent?
The use of plastic water bottles is ridiculous. Its too big of a hassle for people to fill a canteen or thermos. I once hauled a semi load of dasani bottled water from the coca cola owned plant in Montgomery, AL to Nashville. The water source is the same well(s) the city uses (though the city probably adds flouride).
Remember oil products that came in paper and metal cans? I have a few unopened cans of STP oil treatment (half quart) and Sunoco 10w oil (quart) that are in excellent condition. Paper with metal tops and bottoms. They are at least 30 yrs old.
Well said. I agree.
I went to China a few years ago. I noticed the lack of birds everywhere. Thought that was strange.
Most of the garbage comes from China and Japan fishers so says one study.
Add India and Indonesia
The Ocean Cleanup Project performed a study that showed japan as the largest polluter with China coming in second. The USA was around 6% of the pollution.
I have not looked into the internals of this study nor do I know the political leanings of The Ocean Cleanup Project but I suspect they would never vote for a conservative. Given that, I would suspect the numbers to be somewhat accurate since most leftists rarely out themselves yet in this study they aren't torching the USA as the devil.
I suspect they are afraid to admit that China is number 1.
According to the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, a large ship might consume up to 250 tons of fuel per day. To put that in perspective, that's equivalent to over 80,000 gallons of fuel a day. Regular-sized ships, by contrast, may use up to 150 tons of fuel per day.
That doesn’t look like much. They need to repeat it 240,000 times.
Good start though
That's 0.006% of the total.
Okaaay.
Just 99.994% to go!
From the article:
Scientists analsyed 573 kilograms of dry hard plastic debris... in 2019 and found that more than a quarter of the fragments were from ‘abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear’ (ALDFG).... things such as oyster spacers, eel traps, lobster and fish tags... plastic floats and buoys...
...most floating plastics in the North Pacific subtropical gyre can be traced back to five industrialized fishing nations,’ ... about two-thirds were made in Japan or China.
Another 10% were made in South Korea, 6.5% from the U.S., 5.6% from Taiwan and 4.7% from Canada.
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