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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOcean Trash Pick-up Day starts today
The amount of rubbish in our Oceans has become a critical issue for the well-being of the planet. According to the World Economic Forum, unless things change, by 2050 the oceans are expected to contain more plastics than fish (by weight).
At present there are five areas of the world where ocean currents concentrate the plastics in the worlds oceans. The largest of these is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, off the west-coast of the USA, that is estimated to contain around 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic.
This weekend will mark the beginning of the largest ever clean-up and removal of plastic from the Pacific Ocean. The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands, plans to launch its beta cleanup system into the ocean on Saturday.
The beta system, called System 001, is a giant 600 metre-long tube, which is designed to collect the rubbish from the oceans surface
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https://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/the-ocean-cleanup-of-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-will-start-this-saturday/?ref=hvper.com&utm_source=hvper.com&utm_medium=website
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Ocean Trash Pick-up Day starts today (Original Post)
packman
Sep 2018
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. What a huge task ahead for the "System 001".
Hope it is very successful!
Submariner
(12,485 posts)2. How it works
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|This should not have to be funded by a non-profit. Plastic companies should step up and pay for all of this cleanup.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)3. The plastics companies would probably reply:
"We're not responsible for plastic waste in the oceans. What happens to our plastic products once they hit the shelves is not our responsibility."
And there's some truth to that.
If the mallet-headed litterbugs of the world would just dispose of their plastic waste responsibly, recycle it, or just not buy it in the first place, this would be less of a problem.