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incompetent@programming.dev to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours ago

Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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incompetent@programming.dev to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours ago
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Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it can clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within a decade.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36161054

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    the patch is continually being replenished, so…

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      There’s other projects that also tackle that

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      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/

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        And the fishermen in the ocean?

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      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.

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