Everyone can be that. Stop eating meat and drop water-pollution, land-use and co2-emissions by two thirds. Less destruction, instantly.
Imagine one billion people doing that. Animal agriculture, one of the most evil industries, would shrink by a lot, our planet would change. No need for politicians, no need to spend a lot of money, no need to lobby. You just buy a different product next time you shop groceries at the supermarket. 💚

If it can get the necessary funds, that is. In a press release, the organization claimed that eliminating the patch once and for all would cost a whopping $7.5 billion

If you give me 7.5 billion i’ll do my very best to clean up the ocean too

They're going to be so embarrassed when they realize the garbage patch isn't even in the Pacific.

angry bri'ish noises

There's only four left to clean after this one.

In 2014, there were five areas across all the oceans where the majority of plastic concentrated. Researchers collected a total of 3070 samples across the world to identify hot spots of surface level plastic pollution. The pattern of distribution closely mirrored models of oceanic currents with the North Pacific Gyre, or Great Pacific Garbage Patch, being the highest density of plastic accumulation. The other four garbage patches include the North Atlantic garbage patch between the North America and Africa, the South Atlantic garbage patch located between eastern South America and the tip of Africa, the South Pacific garbage patch located west of South America, and the Indian Ocean garbage patch found east of South Africa.

Microplastics are stored in the balls

They can take away our Pacific garbage patch, but they can never take our ball micro plastics!

A thin film of plastic is all that protects our block and tackle from the 5g woke mind virus. Why else do you think we call it our "Junk"?

Finally able to cum silly strings

Thank you for saying something! Can't believe I didn't check myself.

It also lead to me finding this: https://theoceancleanup.com/dashboard/

If I understand correctly, system 3 is the one most relevant to the great garbage patch. It's currently at port, and has been for nearly a year. Not sure what to make of this.

I wasn't even paying attention, my bad. I just saw it in my feed a decided to crosspost it here.

True, but let's not the baby out with the bathwater.

98% or 90% or even a verifiable 50% reduction is insanely amazing news

I feel like there's a story behind that comment that I'm unaware of.

. . . w h a t

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.

i dont know why you would say this unless youre just replying to headlines.. most of the plastic comes from just a handfull of rivers and they're catching the plastic at the source with their river collection programs (lots of interesting solutions they're using including bubble curtains)