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Jun 14, 2022 11:58 PM
GlobalImageServiceCat
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CejAkiAOOGX/
oldguyexlurker
Really looks like humanity taking a shit.
BananaforScale3d
This is the type of business and programs we should be supporting.
kilgoth1
Jesus christ humans. Get your shit together. Is this the kind of assholery you want to leave your children?
piratejimthedagger
This hurts because that's a miniscule drop of trash in the oceans. But gives me hope as it can't harm anything living there now.
leperoutcastunclean
I really wonder about how much carbon dioxide got put into the atmosphere to remove that amount of trash.
Clymenus000
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
mrsdowneyjr
Yet China is pumping it in faster
BrdCdn
India has entered that chat.
SoftKleenex
Both of you go sit in the corner and think about what you did
netutoring
Looks like a lot of fishing gear....we can't even do NOT RED MEAT right. Goddamn, humanity.
SherMattLockSmith
There is kinda a controversy over this, what is shown above is WAY too clean to be collected from the open ocean, and people are claiming(1)
SherMattLockSmith
(2) It was staged because the lack of wildlife that coats normal ocean waste.
YourLatinLover
Zoom in and lemme see all the stuff that lives there
Sesquey
It’s the smells I want…
MyFinalForm
I see a holographic Charizard!
tegfdd77
I’m Old Gregg!
Thatburga
Do you play pop1?
fijisCosmosWrecker
Easy there fuzzy little man-peach.
RadPanda5
Okay, but, real question tho…what do they do with it to make sure it doesn’t end up right back in the ocean? Does it just go to a landfill?
EcoAnxiousHamster
Too much of the plastic conversation revolves around recycling and cleanups. We must turn off the plastic tap (plastic production).
drallibor849
Lobbying should be illegal
KarakLohr
Awesome. I look forward to the day when more starts coming out than is going in every day.
OaksParcel
There are two countries responsible for the absolute vast majority of this, and other governments of the world kiss their ass.
BrdCdn
China and India? For real though a massive percentage is from South East Asia.
Quigonjinnandjuice
Hey! I work for this company!
LadyMoto
I can’t even imagine the fuel that rig takes to boat around and clean this up, sorry I’m in sticker shock and now want to walk everywhere
SadOldWhiner
IIRC, the idea of OCS is to float around with the garbage and slowly gather it, not steam around with a ship. It's a promising prototype.
Quigonjinnandjuice
It’s a Maersk ship and they’re moving to carbon nerutal methanol that they produce.
BrdCdn
Looking into it. Long way away from that yet. A more realistic solution immediately is nuclear.
Hudabah225
It's unbelievable how poorly we treat this planet.
Hudabah225
But things like this give me a little hope.
GoatRodeo
This makes me so happy
allmypostshadnopantson
Still can't find the cat or Waldo in #2
NZSheeps
Bluntmonger
Which is like 0.0000001% of the trash in the oceans there's literal Island sized piles of trash you can walk on
AtlasMorrow
I was thinking the same thing. It’s good to do but the scale for real change… this won’t even make the margin of error
TitoFuentesandthebladerunner
34 down, 6,097,754,132,233,6734 to go.
SteelKnight
Actually, only about 84,000 which isn't that unfeasible if you had a dozen ships on it.
DigitalPizza
So, next year sometime then?
Corgilifeisruff
If Wall-E didn't give up then you shouldn't
eeps
This seems like a proof of concept test which would help scientists figure out how effective it is and if it can be scaled up or adapted.
travelbuddy
That’s fine, better to start
Biscuity
Like bailing water out of a boat with A LOT of holes in it..
blzrdphoto
At this time efforts would be much better spent on preventing more trash from entering the ocean.
Eli93
It's a band-aid, if scaled up maybe even a splint, but unless we stop the people that keep breaking our bones it's ultimately meaningless.
Oracklostintheweb
A good 95% of what is collected in EU, RU, USA end-up in India or other poor country and get back to the ocean anyway, no miracle sorry.
MADchemEE
Agreed,but as useful&good as these are,LARGE percentages of plastic are subsurface(suspended),or microplastics. Non-biodegradable polymers…
MADchemEE
…as we know them, and as we use them, are incompatible with our biosphere.
Avalyr
Some people are looking at your comment and thinking ... f u. But I get it. More action like this needs to be taken. /2
Avalyr
This is a good start but it's like cleaning the worldest biggest lake with a pool sieve. People with power needs to do more though....
GeneralAnubis
Spot on. It's good to clean up, but we gotta stem the flow of it coming in otherwise it's almost meaningless
donttrustthemoon
One man's garbage, is another man's clean-up job
ufoara
ScootiePuffJrSucks
This makes me both sad and happy.
keyboardarsonist
We need to keep cleaning, several counties dump all their waste in to rivers that end up in the ocean. We have to have a better solution
TalkingBehindMyBackInFrontOfMyFace
Movie recommendation - Wasteland
MistLynx
I bet none of those plastic containers were dumped, they probably got swept out after hurricanes destroyed homes.
UnitConversionBot
6728kg ≈ 1059.5 stone or 6.6217 long tons or 84.1 washing machines
DaisyfromDownunder
How many giraffes, bananas?
MidnightTacoTruck
Yes! Finally
TheRealNotSoSlimShady0
How many cheeseburgers per square mile?
weenerschnitzels
Blue
ChrisMS78
How many half giraffes?
vegivamp
Bag bot. Don't be an enabler.
KellyCrazyCatLadyinTraining
Thank you @UnitConversionBot ! Thank your human for me! ^_^ *pats your head*
Lemuffinmannn
Good bot is good
terribleferalfox
For reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/cpe1no/using_washing_machines_as_a_unit_of_measurement/
elvispelviss
How much in football fields?
CaffeineEnabler
Or 4.288 1997 Ford Courier twin cab utes (with the 2.5l diesel engine)
scabbypatties
In one net...
IllegalAlienFromOuterSpace
How many human bodies is that???
RedOvermorrow
how much is that in Rhode Islands
VeryUnoriginalUsername
+1 thanks for converting to normal units of measure.
comacomacomacomachameleon
i'm so glad it finally understands people want measurements in washing machines
vegivamp
But it already was!
teardropivyyearofthetiger
Gigglefart
Yeah but how many freedom units?
xahsio
around 14k lbs off the top off my head
justabitofpoo
84.1 washing machines.
drw16
approximately 1200 dead children
MaJiCiDE
explainer
Oh so about a years worth of school shootings
IHeartSwissChocolate
Xioncyrus
Ow, I mean you're right but ow
WeDontDeserveGoldens
cmerc00n
You heathens need to get it straight. The standard measurement is 1 banana. 6728 kg = 57,017 bananas
genericanamoly
Thank you, finally a measurement I understand.
weenerschnitzels
I thought banana is for scale? Like size wise
mikez87
Must be much more than 57 bananas
kibje
It seems to be just a tiny bit more indeed
HeadJamistan
How much is that in large boulders the size of small boulders?
OneGuyWithSixGuns
@BotDrawA Large boulders the size of small boulders
BotDrawA
@OneGuyWithSixGuns Here's your drawing of a "Large boulders the size of small boulders"
OhNoDontTouch
well done, ya bucket of bolts.
SpaceHaggis
Wheres the ship operating?
NZSheeps
In the sea
Cutthroatlemur
I’m guessing my kid’s room.
CrazyCatLad
My wife's closet.
SpaceHaggis
EGifWrecker
Meanwhile in India this thing is in reverse ><
thinkybrainpains
Ghost fishing gear makes up 46% of the Great pacific garbage patch. Industry lobbied hard for it to not be considered trash.
olivertheoctopus
If it looks like shit and smells like shit and talks like shit… bunch of bastards, the lot of them
graehall
I'm shocked an exploitative industry lobbied to skew unfavourable information demonstrating their culpability in their favour.
BonafideHomicide
They wouldn't dare...
redexodus
its trash tho
Technotoad64
Yes, but enough money can easily trump basic logic.
Gibleteousjack
One man's treasure is another man's trash.
redexodus
so its trash.
Gibleteousjack
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thinkybrainpains
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/blue-ocean-gear-sustainable-fishing/
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thinkybrainpains
yes exactly. The ocean is the "blood stream" of Earth and we are destroying it
AtomicChipmunk
Look at that giant pile of straws! Oh wait.... it's fishing nets...
travelbuddy
This
TheMasterofbation
That.
AsaMetric
And the other!
Gibleteousjack
Think of all the straws they can make out of those nets!
MikeStinse
Which we ironically cleaned up with a wet
Gooooodmoooorrrningmuchwow
A wet what? Logs soaked in wood or a toaster team of some sort
StonesOnTheHill
Everything gets wet when you put it in the ocean. That's because the ovmcean is mostly water.
AtomicChipmunk
The suspense is killing me. ?
weenerschnitzels
A net. *flies away*
PostMoThoin
Anet benning?
gertrudegorgonzola
A wet net *polishes monocle*
ZippidyDooDa
Could someone come up with ideas to stop this? My suggestion, marked equipment you can get money for return instead of throwing out
ZippidyDooDa
Like with bottles in most of EU
dabbishing
And yet they target plastic straws.
thinkybrainpains
order a shake at McDs and get a plastic cup with a paper straw LOLz
TheLoveGiant
What is crazy, interesting, and sad is that when they removed all this plastic they killed thousands of sea critters living in it. The...
TheLoveGiant
..little critters left in the ocean will also die without the area to hide in and eat alge growing from it. These garbage patchs have...
TheLoveGiant
Become their own new ecosystems. Im not saying tjey shouldnt clean them up. Its just something to be studied, and is now being looked into.
Tassyr
"Ghost?"
NZSheeps
Trash made up of fishing gear lost at sea
tr26
Lost or abandoned.
MyRespectableAlterEgo
Another sad issue is that a lot of cummunities use the mosquito nets they’re given as fishing nets: they know the trade-off, but they’re (1)
MyRespectableAlterEgo
Desperate… sadly mosquito nets are also a nightmare to clear up when they break/are abandoned in water. It’s an awful catch-22 - we can’t (2
MyRespectableAlterEgo
Stop sending mosquito nets as they save millions of lives, but the micro plastics and river-choking needs addressing. It’s tricky.
yuikol14
Who is "lobbied" in international water?
SexyAttackHelicopter
Proud to say massachusetts is being total cunts about this issue. Also restrictions on fish. Its working here.
thinkybrainpains
Maine lobster and fish industry is powerful and full of cunts who refuse to evolve or care about the environment.
kerBamf
Maine has pretty good regs, last I heard. Strict controls regarding size and whether or not a lobster is breeding.
TheAnswerWasAlwaysMoreLube
An area of governance where you can be better than Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_northwest_cod_fishery
ExpectedDickbuttGotDickbutt
Why are we fishing for so many ghosts?
Drakenborn
Same reason we fish for other things: they're delicious
TheGhostMinx
Where else do you expect to find us?
GorillaPowers
Ocean's haunted
platypuspower
Low cal.
Arkandos
To keep ghost populations down! Ever seen a ghost? Exactly. Its efficient and keeps us safe!
NACHOFRlEND
Earths haunted
DonteHaversham
Better do cocaine about it
GenericUser4Thousand
milkmyrod
It will be once we're all dead because we filled the ocean with plastics
GrmpyWzzrd
haunted by humans, indeed
FecalSaliva
What?
DankVoodoo
NACHOFRlEND
*Empties Ocean Cleanup System* Earth's haunted
Tockz
*Loads revolver* Earth's haunted.
theGrumptastic
Mxlespxles
tr26
Yup: https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/ghost-fishing-gear
EnDeRWiGiN
Nowhere in the article does it say it is not considered trash. But i can see how "lost gear" could be a loop hole to not being trash
tr26
I don’t think they were successful with their lobbying.
yuikol14
Who do you "lobby" with international water
JohnnyLawlessEsq
The point is it's not *reported* as trash.
EnDeRWiGiN
This post and article would beg to differ
JohnnyLawlessEsq
Well ya got me there! Zinger!