• Hazdaz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Did you miss the part where there are 33 BILLION pounds of plastic added to the oceans EACH YEAR?! This isn’t a one-and-done problem. That is 2 decades of clean-up for EACH YEAR of waste dumped into the oceans. You are completely missing the scope of the problem. By orders of magnitude.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, the 14 million TONS is the 33 billion pounds added each year. We can get to 0 with the above math in no time, and get the total (the other 200 million) down in a couple decades. It’s you that’s not following the post. This is without us reducing the total total output of plastic in oceans, which we are and will continue to do.