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| Shocking images show the world's biggest garbage dump amid clean-up |
| 2024-06-24 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Shocking images have laid bare the world's biggest garbage dump - comprising 100,000 metric tons of everything from discarded fridges to children's toys. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch spans 620,000 square miles - an area twice the size of Texas - with the majority of trash coming from China, Japan, Korea and the US. The aquatic trash-heap was first detected 1,200 miles west of California in 1997, and has since sprawled across the ocean - threatening marine life while releasing toxic microplastics into the atmosphere. However, since 2019, the Ocean Cleanup nonprofit has been on a mission to change this through an $189 million project aiming to conquer the artificial floater over the next 10 years. 'We're taking it out of the ocean while we still can,' the charity's head of environmental and social affairs Matthias Egger told DailyMail.com. 'Really what we are doing is we are preventing an ecological time bomb.' He said that a whopping 80 percent of the trash is discarded fishing equipment from developed countries - mostly China, Korea, Japan and the US. 'We used to think most plastic you find in the ocean comes from the land,' Egger told DailyMail.com. 'But what we do find is that most of the plastic coming from the land into the ocean stays very close to the river and on the beaches.' 'Sometimes you hear in the media that plastic pollution comes from developing nations that lack the infrastructure to properly dispose of things,' he added. 'But we're finding the majority of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of items from highly industrialized nations'. Egger said the majority of the plastic removed from the ocean can be recycled - and the Ocean Cleanup has partnered with Korean car producer Kia, which uses the trash to build EVs. He said in future the huge-scale data collection effort behind the scenes of the cleanup could help hold countries accountable for their green pledges by tracking their waste output, while 'biding us time' in the climate crisis. Recently, an international group of scientists discovered a water-borne fungus chomping through the trash, which has been detailed in a new study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. The fungus was discovered among the whispery layers of other microbes which live in the suspended plastic pile, and it's only the fourth known marine fungus capable of consuming plastic waste. Related: Pacific Garbage Patch 10/20/2022 The great ocean clean-up! Watch the incredible moment scientists extract 10 TONNES of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – the largest single catch to date Pacific Garbage Patch 03/29/2008 Landfill in the Sea |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #7 "I want to believe." Too good to check. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-06-24 18:26 |
| #6 The Lie lingers, its rebuttal forgotten. |
| Posted by: Fred 2024-06-24 18:15 |
| #5 ^ If it's the size of Texas then not palestine. palestine is more of a cesspool off on a corner of the bigger whole. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-06-24 16:02 |
| #4 Shocking images show the world's biggest garbage dump They have found "Palestine"? |
| Posted by: grom the introspective 2024-06-24 15:41 |
| #3 Strange how it doesn't show up on Zoom Earth. Also strange how, if it's a non moving mass, that the shoes of 'overboards' from SE Asia float into bays in British Columbia. I'm sure there's an explanation that involves White Supremacy and MAGA. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-06-24 15:39 |
| #2 Been using World Winds SAT pics and 2 other Geo sat imagining apps NASA included and their variors display modes . Nothing has been showing up even 1/10th the scale the climate MSM liars claim. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2024-06-24 13:59 |
| #1 #FakeNews QFT: Of all the fabricated narratives about the environment, this one takes the cake. Yes, there is plastic in the oceans, mostly discarded fishing gear, but there is no island of plastic waste twice the size of Texas in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.. Because the average person cannot see the middle of the Pacific for themselves sensationalist activists, media, and politicians just make this up. Linky |
| Posted by: mossomo 2024-06-24 12:51 |