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BlueGreenLady

(2,887 posts)
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 11:16 AM Jun 2022

Plastic Pollution In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Created Something Incredible



Clean up of the great plastic garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean may be detrimental to large numbers of ocean life.
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Plastic Pollution In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Created Something Incredible (Original Post) BlueGreenLady Jun 2022 OP
That is a great video Easterncedar Jun 2022 #1
Great story, fascinating perspective. I like the suggestion that the world should concentrate on Martin68 Jun 2022 #2
And I'm hearing that this supposedly indestructible plastic that lasts forever, doesn't, in fact, SWBTATTReg Jun 2022 #3
New life is emerging... 2naSalit Jun 2022 #4

Martin68

(27,311 posts)
2. Great story, fascinating perspective. I like the suggestion that the world should concentrate on
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 11:42 AM
Jun 2022

reducing production of single-use plastics rather than on cleaning up the existing garbage patches.

SWBTATTReg

(26,144 posts)
3. And I'm hearing that this supposedly indestructible plastic that lasts forever, doesn't, in fact,
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 11:49 AM
Jun 2022

last forever. My fear is that perhaps some sort of ocean life will end up loving plastic and thus, start consuming all sorts of plastics, thus putting our/the world's use of plastics at risk. That's always been my fear, that in some ways, mankind and our habits are leading way to new forms of life that may devour substances that we didn't intend to be consumed.

However, I suspect that by the time we realize this, it'll be too late.

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