The Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit organization, has projected that the blight on the world's largest ocean could be removed within a decade and for around $7.5 billion.

After three years extracting plastic waste from the notorious Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an environmental nonprofit says it can finish the job within a decade, with a price tag of several billion dollars.

Twice the size of Texas, the mass of about 79,000 metric tons of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii is growing at an exponential pace, according to researchers.

  • bluGill@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    AT what cost? 80,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere wouldn’t surprise me…

    • LostXOR@fedia.io
      51·
      3 months ago

      80,000 tons of CO2 is better than 80,000 tons in the ocean, I guess.