incompetent@programming.dev to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoCleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patchfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square172linkfedilinkarrow-up1996arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1984arrow-down1external-linkCleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patchfuturism.comincompetent@programming.dev to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square172linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarequickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·1 month agothe patch is continually being replenished, so…
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·1 month agoSo? Then you just gotta do a cleanup run every month or so to keep it clean. Its not about getting it to zero, its about minimizing it.
minus-squareEvotech@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoThere’s other projects that also tackle that
minus-squaresome_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThey thought of that, too. There are a finite number of rivers responsible for bringing the vast majority of trash into the ocean https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoAnd the fishermen in the ocean?
the patch is continually being replenished, so…
So? Then you just gotta do a cleanup run every month or so to keep it clean. Its not about getting it to zero, its about minimizing it.
There’s other projects that also tackle that
They thought of that, too. There are a finite number of rivers responsible for bringing the vast majority of trash into the ocean
https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/
And the fishermen in the ocean?