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I see a lot of people talk about this and how big of a problem it is, bla bla bla. The only solutions I see offered as of yet is to reduce our use of plastic and/or convert to more bio-degradable plastic. Both good solutions as to not increase this disaster any further but it does little to fix the problem.
The oceans are the life blood of the planet, if we destroy them we might as well move the doomsday clock to midnight. I myself don't go to the beach much, can't even swim, grew up in the Midwest far way from any oceans. But alas I have contributed to this problem as everyone else on the planet has through passiveness and through my contributions to our disposable society.
It would not be a difficult process to begin to gather all of this plastic out of the ocean, it has to be done and the sooner the better. However it would be a lengthy process and then there is the matter of, "ok we got this big chunk of mess out of there, now what". The above link states that it's "twice the size of the continental U.S.". I'm not sure how dense it is so any real calculations are out the window but it sounds like good material to build our own green island!
Why not? I've seen much dumber ideas pushed through the public (reference: the entire Bush presidency) and you have to do something with it. Can't just throw it into the ground that's a whole other problem in itself. Could burn it but who's going to put a power plant in the middle of the ocean?
Push the water through filters to gather out the particles, use the sun to melt the mass together, walla instant island! then since it would be outside any nations boundaries, declare your own green country! Margaritas anyone!?
ok ok, I was really bored this evening while working on websites. :-)
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