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Great Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization says

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it can finish the job within a decade, with a price tag of several billion dollars.

Twice the size of Texas, the mass of about 79,000 metric tons of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii is growing at an exponential pace, according to researchers.

AA5B ,

There seems to be a basic math problem here - if it’s still growing at an exponential pace, any effort to clean it up will fail

Why don’t we focus on scaling those trash interceptors to every major river and harbor, to see if we can fix that math?

Frozengyro ,

Most of the garbage comes from commercial fishing. So that won’t help.

xenoclast ,

I will be a billionaire in ten years by solving climate change and rolling back the clock on all human damage to the earth!

Money pweeeeese

BmeBenji ,

Finally! Now no one can deny that Gojira song really IS about Great Britain.

Fiivemacs ,

Eliminated…or relocated. I assume relocated like when people go cleanup a park. They just shuffle the garbage to be someone else’s problem. Stop consuming please

TachyonTele , (edited )

You don’t buy anything and don’t have any trash?

Anyolduser ,

Sure, but I’d rather have it relocated to a landfill where it’ll be kept out of the water supply and will eventually get covered with dirt and turned into a park or forest preserve.

Landfills aren’t just a hole in the ground people throw shit into. They’re complex, managed systems that efficiently store garbage and keep it sequestered while it breaks down over long periods of time.

bluGill ,

AT what cost? 80,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere wouldn't surprise me...

LostXOR ,

80,000 tons of CO2 is better than 80,000 tons in the ocean, I guess.

rc__buggy ,

That’s great news. It doesn’t say in the article but are they going to start on the Great Atlantic Garbage Patch after they are done?

UnderpantsWeevil ,
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This is a white-paper proposal for a clean-up effort that nobody wants to fund. The CEO of Ocean Cleanup has been pitching this fix since 2012. This isn’t even a new idea, its just been going through permutations of refinement since the initial proposal, with funding coming primarily from private independent donations. But we’re talking tens-of-millions raised on a project that needs 100x that amount.

And it does not appear to include the cost of physically processing the removed waste, just collecting and moving it to another location.

Given the stinginess of state governments when it comes to waste cleanup, I’m not holding my breath.

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