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Lmaoquote:In October 2019, when research revealed most ocean plastic pollution comes from Chinese cargo ships,[88] a spokesperson from The Ocean Cleanup said: "Everyone talks about saving the oceans by stopping using plastic bags, straws and single use packaging. That's important, but when we head out on the ocean, that's not necessarily what we find." Don't worry we don't need to stop using plastic for everything, it's the Chinese's fault for taking all our wonderful wonderful plastic and dumping it in the ocean, those scoundrels
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Shame Boy posted:Where'd you see that, cuz supposedly they've collected 100 metric tons.
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Shame Boy posted:...what dont dox me
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Wikipedia posted:Like Mr. Trash Wheel, the others deployed so far have also been anthropomorphised: I'm glad that whoever maintains this wiki article is dutifully documenting the gender identities of the various Trash Wheels
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Useless bullshit but with a gender identity. Such disruption.
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The trash wheels actually work relatively well. The trash is concentrated and non broken down in estuaries, plus there’s no violent storms.
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cat botherer posted:The trash wheels actually work relatively well. The trash is concentrated and non broken down in estuaries, plus there’s no violent storms. but it doesn’t make someone billions of dollars so it’s actually bad.
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Panfilo posted:The good news is that by the time we develop a scalable Ocean Seive for plastic any potential bycatch will have been long extinct! I love my dead gay acidic ocean!
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I thought it was because he sucks
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Shame Boy posted:...what I love him
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Jan 25, 2023 02:47
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I AM TRASH WHEEL 410,757,864,530 plastics eaten
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environmentalism is when liberalism
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Shame Boy posted:Lmao Blaming it on China reminds me of the rhetoric about air pollution as well, this idea that no matter what progress we make on our end it will be completely overshadowed by their pollution.
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almost every individual action that you can take is meaningless. it's all a smokescreen to blame you for the planet dying and not like, uh, four dudes.
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Panfilo posted:I thought it turned out that straws made up a relatively tiny amount of plastic waste by volume and that straw bans were largely performative and drew attention from bigger problems? im pretty sure beijing has better air than something like LA for years lol
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:almost every individual action that you can take is meaningless. it's all a smokescreen to blame you for the planet dying and not like, uh, four dudes.
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Palladium posted:im pretty sure beijing has better air than something like LA for years lol Yeah they really cleaned it up for the Olympics and everyone said 'wait, this rocks let's do this all the time' while la just made a bigger highway
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loving Seattle had the worst air in the world for awhile last summer. We really don't have any room to judge.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I want that to be built and to attract all manner of rich people. They'll probably sink it themselves ala Costa Corcordia or from cost cutting. And until it sinks it'll be a norovirus incubator like every other cruise ship. D-D-D-DOUBLE DRAGON
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There was an adorable trash wheel with a fun name in Baltimore I hope he lives still
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There was an adorable trash wheel with a fun name in Baltimore I hope he lives still I think Stav's still in New York
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Panfilo posted:I thought it turned out that straws made up a relatively tiny amount of plastic waste by volume and that straw bans were largely performative and drew attention from bigger problems? they're building a new trash incinerator plant near me lol reclassified it as green energy, it literally is planned to burn old tires & recycle plastic into power
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I would volunteer to take the trash wheel out for a spin on a nice day
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Professor Shark posted:I would volunteer to take the trash wheel out for a spin on a nice day Buddy, they don't even let me gently caress it
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Shame Boy posted:...what This owns. I want a few in the Chicago river just for sheer delight
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DrPossum posted:This owns. I want a few in the Chicago river just for sheer delight they dont work if dave matthews dumps sewage on them sadly
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SniperWoreConverse posted:they're building a new trash incinerator plant near me lol you're better off making some co2 right now by burning it than letting the bacteria methane it up in a year because methane is fuckin awful (although the math is likely off because methane's way worse short-term and slightly better long-term in equivalent quantities) it's one of those incredibly stupid corner cases but it does technically mean that a bunch of things that shouldn't be allowed to call themselves "green*" can
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DACK FAYDEN posted:you're better off making some co2 right now by burning it than letting the bacteria methane it up in a year because methane is fuckin awful
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His name is Mr. Trash Wheel and he totally owns, here's his Twitter https://twitter.com/mrtrashwheel Over 13 million cigarette butts filtered out of the harbor
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DACK FAYDEN posted:https://twitter.com/joakimjansson/status/1614701473694187520 first they started not capitalizing names like jefferson bezos as a sign of disrespect, and soon rest of the world will also understand loving up trumps name
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:His name is Mr. Trash Wheel and he totally owns, here's his Twitter Unfortunately due to jurisdictional infighting they just dump all the collected trash back into the harbor
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DrPossum posted:This owns. I want a few in the Chicago river just for sheer delight Asian Carp wheels.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:His name is Mr. Trash Wheel and he totally owns, here's his Twitter Mr. Trash Wheel is literally what I posted  Didn't know he had a twitter though that's fun
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https://twitter.com/MrTrashWheel/status/1617196865182744578 I love him even more now
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Panfilo posted:I thought it turned out that straws made up a relatively tiny amount of plastic waste by volume Oh absolutely Panfilo posted:and that straw bans were largely performative and drew attention from bigger problems? Eh depends on who's spinning the narrative. I feel like immediately rushing to "um, actually..." about us finally managing to take the tiniest loving step towards passing laws to get rid of single-use plastics is a bit counterproductive, like getting regulations about plastics passed in a country very much still owned by the petroleum industry is not nothing, but you definitely cannot let it be "well we did that and now the problem is solved forever" like some people want it to be yeah.
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Shame Boy posted:Oh absolutely One thing that you see with straws and plastic bags is the baffling decision to make it about climate change and not trash But also it’s just emblematic of the general trend that all environmental solutions need to focus primarily on the consumer instead of going for much bigger ticket items that would impact industry Similar to the electric car mandates when commercial shipping is a much bigger area of opportunity You see this with water use policy too, with lawn watering restrictions when agricultural use is many times more significant In some ways it’s counter productive because it just fuels the culture war bullshit while ignoring much larger opportunities But it also lets people feel smug about their Tesla and their brown lawn and their soggy paper straw so who is to say if it’s good or bad
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Shame Boy posted:Oh absolutely The plastic straw stuff felt more like the typical shifting of systemic issues down to consumer choice and just a wealth transfer/finger on the scale for company A over company B than anything genuinely there to make the world better. Though my perception is probably colored by the disposal bag ban which 100% was just a way to transfer packaging costs to the consumer and in say California has now largely just resulted in grocery stores flipping a cost into a revenue source. They've all but switched to a slightly thicker plastic rather than the paper bags originally rolled out, since the margin on those were worse.
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