A half-mile installation just took 20,000 pounds of plastic out of the Pacific - proof that ocean

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

ocean garbage can be cleaned

It's been nearly a decade since Boyan Slat announced at age 18 that he had a plan to rid the world's oceans of plastic.

Slat, now 27, is a Dutch inventor and the founder of the Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that aims to remove 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040.

That goal has often seemed unattainable. The Ocean Cleanup launched its first attempt at a plastic-catching device in 2018, but the prototype broke in the water. A newer model, released in 2019, did a better job of collecting plastic, but the organization estimated that it would need hundreds of those devices to clean the world's oceans.

Scientists and engineers began to question whether the group could deliver on the tens of millions of dollars it had acquired in funding.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-half-mile-installation-just-took-20000-pounds-of-plastic-out-of-the-pacific-proof-that-ocean-garbage-can-be-cleaned/ar-AAPz4mW

[jimfields33]

1. Excellent work!

Maybe next time, politicians won’t demand plastic bags be forced by people to use in the 70’s and 80’s. Screw those jerks!

[mitch96]

2. NOw turn that plastic into something useful like building blocks or street pavers.

I think a woman in So Africa is doing that with reclaimed plastic from dumps...
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[questionseverything]

4. I don't think it would be so easy here because of the pollution

The heated sand/ plastic mixture would emit

[mitch96]

5. This is where I saw the article... I know nothing about plastics...

https://www.ecowatch.com/plastic-bricks-in-kenya-2650645441.html
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[MyOwnPeace]

3. SO interesting.......

there are tons of people that know what needs to be done to make it 'all better' - but there are also tons of people that are fighting it all because of other reasons, be it 'change' - financial - habit.
I guess it is no different from 'stop the coal' - 'anti-vax' - car emissions - etc....

HOW DARE THE GOVERNMENT TELL US HOW TO BE SAFER!!!!!!