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

Yes, but it's a war, and they are losing to people making things much, much worse.

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

This comment is a pretty solid example of the normal UpliftingNews comments.

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.

And the article says "we can totally do this! All need is loads of money! Please donate!"

Been following them for years. They do great work, but often seem a little overly optimistic in their messaging. What they are doing is a hard challenge and they seem to be slowly getting better and better. I wonder if they also are lacking a bit in funding to be able to efficiently move forward.

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

angry bri'ish noises

And sue for costs, from the manufacturers, if plastic is too expensive, they'll stop using it, if they had to pay the environmental costs, it would become too expensive.

Bio degradable plastics

I found a few futurology comms, not sure if that's the same thing as futurism.

Some comms also have different names but when I search futurism or futurology they are in the results so perhaps the comm description is included in the results.

Also I don't know if the method of searching I'm using in Voyager is limited to the comms that users on the instance my account is on are subscribed to.

!futurology@futurology.today

!futurology@lemmy.ml

!futurology@lemmy.world

!Futurology@kbin.social

!futurology_pocasts@futurology.today

!futurology_youtube@futurology.today

!futurism@lemmy.ca

it's not on lemmy, it's an external link

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.

There’s other projects that also tackle that

They thought of that, too. There are a finite number of rivers responsible for bringing the vast majority of trash into the ocean

https://theoceancleanup.com/rivers/

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)

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

. . . w h a t

Yes, very uplifting.

If we cancelled the order of ~40 F-35s, we could have that 4 billion dollars.

If we appropriately taxed the rich, we could do it without even having to cut the precious military spending.

The weird thing is that money isn't real. It's just an arbitrary idea of how much somebody thinks someone/something else is worth. When was the last time we had enough gold to back up all the money promises in the world? That was a long long long time ago.

Radio signals 1935-current

You can put a plaque on a stadium. Bit hard on water.

$7.5 bil is nothing. The Pentagon has literally lost (like actually lost track of) many times that