"No plastic to the seas" is a great idea. I most certainly agree that the biodegradable plastic should be repurposed insitu to be part of restoring fertility to the soil and the oceans. Now that the climate change hoax has been completely exposed the scientific community with private industry is exploding with useful technology. Even the greatest of all technologies that was hidden from the masses is now part of mainstream. Even children know in school that the earth has its normal cycles. day/night, 4 seasons, moons orbit, earth orbit, sunspot cycle, hurricane cycles, asteroid showers x4 annually, Haley's comet, Even our binary star has a 3600 year cycle. It has been recorded many times in our past. Now let's get back to work on current problems. There are still a few uneducated persons that believe that plastics are not biodegradable. Through ignorance or agenda driven this is not helpful. In nature compounds are formed and compounds are broken down. Organic matter uses DNA and RNA microbes to reduce compounds. Simple ones DNA (bacteria and fungi ) can handle. But for complex and man made compounds requires RNA microbes only. This technology has been around for 40 years. Dr Carl Oppenheimer. There is no excuse for a single country to have littered coastal areas. Bioremediation has the ability to clean all water and waste water, eliminate trash dumpsites, eliminate the need for chlorine, eliminate the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Just to name a few currently in use industries. For a (I do not believe a word you are saying) please view on youtube the Megaborg oil spill. Note: plastic island GYREs can be cleaned at sea, turned into compost, have a ship super greenhouse, grow food and be sustainable from sun, wind, and trash. Also very profitable. Ask questions and become part of the solution.
Published by Guy McGowen, President/CEO/Chief Science Officer
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An interesting reply indeed. In a million years from now most of the organic compounds present at this day will have been degraded. Plastics however do not degrade rapidly, hence the major problems caused. It takes hundreds of years at least to degrade completely, in the meanwhile polluting the food chain, killing animals and polluting our food. The appr. 150 million tonnes of plastic present at sea (incl. the gyres), which amount increases by 6-13 million tonnes annually, cannot be collected nor be composted easily without harming the ecosystem. So prevention is the main solution, but trying to clean our mess the next one. if we do not act we swim around in plastics soon. Please refer to the report of the UN and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation of 2016.
Published by Michael Mannaart, Executive Secretary at KIMO Netherlands/Belgium