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Espiritdescali@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 9 months 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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Espiritdescali@futurology.todayM to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 9 months 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.
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    And puts it where?

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      The Atlantic

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        Dammit now I have this picture in my head of two cleanup teams sneaking trash back into the other’s ocean.

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          I don’t know why you think the British would want to remove their own landmass?

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      I think their idea is to put it into new plastic products.

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        So it can go back into the ocean.

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          So our planet will have a plastic cycle then? Sounds good enough for now.

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          Gotta stay in business somehow.

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      Removed by mod

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      Outside the environment.

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