Dutch Inventor Says His Ocean Cleaning Boom Is Working

[MechAg94]

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-10-02/dutch-inventor-says-his-ocean-cleaning-boom-is-working

https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/the-ocean-cleanup-successfully-catches-plastic-in-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/

I thought this was worth noting.  An environmentalist actually working to clean stuff up rather than just complaining about it.  Looks like it is crowd funded according to their website.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — After a series of setbacks, a system for catching plastic floating in the Pacific between California and Hawaii is now working, its Dutch inventor said Wednesday.

Boyan Slat, a university dropout who founded The Ocean Cleanup nonprofit, announced that the floating boom is skimming up waste ranging in size from a discarded net and a car wheel complete with tire to chips of plastic measuring just 1 millimeter.

The results are promising enough to begin designing a second system to send to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area of floating plastic trash twice the size of Texas, Slat said.

[WLJ]

They'll get it banned because someone just found an endangered plankton that didn't exist until two weeks ago that lives in the patch.
Then it's back to complaining and blaming the USA

[zxcvbob]

They'll get it banned because someone just found an endangered plankton that didn't exist until two weeks ago that lives in the patch.
Then it's back to complaining and blaming the USA

Or ban it because he didn't do an environmental impact study.

[Ron]

Dispatch a bunch of them to China and India, stat.

Those two countries alone contribute the majority of plastic debri to the oceans.

At least that is what I've been led to believe.

[zxcvbob]

Dispatch a bunch of them to China and India, stat.

Those two countries alone contribute the majority of plastic debri to the oceans.

At least that is what I've been led to believe.

That's what I've read too.  China fills the oceans with plastic, and the whole world glares at the USA for is.

[MillCreek]

^^^I learn something every day: I heretofore had no idea as to where the plastic in the oceans was coming from.

[WLJ]

There was an article a few days ago that said something like 73% of the plastic in the Atlantic, yes the Atlantic, was traced back to Chinese merchant ships. Don't have time at the moment to find it.

[HeroHog]

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/10/03/study-chinese-cargo-ships-dump-73-trash-atlantic-ocean/

[WLJ]

That's it. Thanks
Sorry was having to rush out the door at that moment.

[Hawkmoon]

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/10/03/study-chinese-cargo-ships-dump-73-trash-atlantic-ocean/

Young environmental activist Greta Thunberg and several of her peers notably filed a complaint with the U.N., citing the Convention on the Rights of the Child, against Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey for their lack of effort against pollution. As China is not a signatory to that convention, it did not appear on the list of defendants.

Way to go for the low-hanging fruit, Greta. Pick on (relatively) minor polluters who are signatories to the treaty, while ignoring the elephant in the room.

[makattak]

For your reading, Millcreek:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-plastic-oceans-comes-just-TEN-rivers.html

Americans using straws isn't the cause, I'm sure you're shocked to learn.

[MillCreek]

^^^That was a very interesting article.

[WLJ]

For your reading, Millcreek:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-plastic-oceans-comes-just-TEN-rivers.html

Americans using straws isn't the cause, I'm sure you're shocked to learn.

Proof it's anyone else's fault but America's is racist.
Just impeach Trump, problem solved.