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Scripps Study Shows Plastic in Pacific Garbage Patch has Increased 100-Fold

Wow is what I can say in the first sentence. 100 times the amount that was found 40 years ago! It just amazes me how the garbage patch in the ocean is as big as Texas and growing. It disgusts me that insect eggs are in our food chain which is being consumed into our body. Knowing that the garbage keeps accumulating in the ocean I feel like its hopeless for us to clean it up because there is too much! It seems impossible to have the ocean free of plastic debris. Lets just make that pile of garbage into another island. Or more ocean clean up. But how can we inform the businesses to recycle. That is are job to figure our how to tell them. Seeing that picture of that handful of plastic in a hand was probably picked up as they were walking down the beach for maybe 10 minutes or less. Imagine if they were to walk down the beach for an hour? probably have trash bags full of plastic.

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19-Year-Old Develops Ocean Cleanup Array That Could Remove 7,250,000 Tons Of Plastic From the World's Oceans

I cannot believe a 19 year old, same age as us! think of such a genius idea! If Boyan Slat a young 19 year old can think of this invention than i wonder what our younger generation will think of. However that will only work if our younger generation is aware of the garbage epidemic. It says it may take up to 5 years for the clean up process. That is the best idea i have heard so far other than having the garbage float in the ocean forever. However, where would all the ocean garbage go after collecting it all? Are we going to bring the ocean garbage to land and make our landfills even bigger? This is the best creation I have heard by far for our ocean garbage to reduce the amount of disease it will cause for us human and the animals that is entering in our food chain. I wonder if we can make more of these inventions to decrease the amount of time and make the clean up a little faster by a year or two. I agree that this will help aware the people to recycle. I wonder what else one of us will think of next?