The Ocean Cleanup begins cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

[Uncle Joe]

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Give the guy credit. He's got a plan and he's showing that this is a viable

solution to address it. Lomger term, stopping the trash at the river source before it enters the ocean is the right approach for long term global benefit.

[MadameButterfly]

2. stopping the source

IN the long run, we need to stop producing so much plastic so it doesn't even get to the rivers. Not all of it gets picked up--much is breaking down into microplastics and being ingested by wildlife. And not everything that is picked up can be recycled.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Welcome aboard!

Very true, your point. But until a new source of structural packaging is discovered, there will be more plastic in the waste stream....especially in developing countries where the populations are now demanding more stuff to consume.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. A big, fat K&R!♥

[malaise]

5. K & R

More good news

[Uncle Joe]

6. I agree malaise, and if I see

the sunglasses they make from this plastic I will buy two or three pair.

[shanti]

10. Better open your wallet

They're $199.

[Goodheart]

7. This is something the UN should fund.

[Wounded Bear]

8. K & R...nt

[UTUSN]

9. Fine, so where's it going, on Musk-Bezos-Branson trip to the universe? No didn't read the OP

[womanofthehills]

11. Good start but what about 25,000 barrels of DDT dumped off Catalina Island

"Staggering": 25,000 barrels found at toxic dump site in Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles coast

April 28, 2021 / 7:16 AM / CBS/AP

Marine scientists say they have found what they believe to be as many as 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California coast near Catalina Island, where a massive underwater toxic waste site dating back to World War II has long been suspected.

The 27,345 "barrel-like" images were captured by researchers at the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They mapped more than 36,000 acres of seafloor between Santa Catalina Island and the Los Angeles coast in a region previously found to contain high levels of the toxic chemical in sediments and in the ecosystem.https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ddt-barrels-toxic-waste-dump-pacific-ocean-california/