Thats sadly not even a first step, its basically a crawl.
A crawl in the positive direction
Yes definitely but sadly not even on the same continent as enough, we need to do several orders of Magnitude more or as others call it “play god” by creating organisms that eat plastic.
Bad move. Think of the knockdown effects.
I wonder if they figured out how to remove the garbage without hurting the blue sea dragons that are living in there.
Obviously the garbage has to get out of the ocean, I just remember that the last I heard about it a few years ago they had to stop because they were accidentally hurting and killing the very wildlife they’re trying to protect. It’s a shitty catch 22 we’ve created, but I hope they succeed. That garbage has been there too fucking long.
…prompting conservatives to send even more garbage. “Ain’t nuthin in the bible about cleanin up no oceans, you marxist satanists! That garbage patch is part of our heritage!”
Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it’s on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034.
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
The title seems rather misleading. “We’re on track if someone just gives us 7.5 billion USD” is a really big if. It doesn’t seem like they are close to raising those kinds of funds either.
