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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.

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[–] AA5B 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

There seems to be a basic math problem here - if it’s still growing at an exponential pace, any effort to clean it up will fail

Why don’t we focus on scaling those trash interceptors to every major river and harbor, to see if we can fix that math?

[–] Frozengyro 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most of the garbage comes from commercial fishing. So that won't help.

[–] andxz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

At least that'll correct itself when all the fish are dead, right?

..right?

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