Posted above, but that 33 billion is there to scare ppl, which also has the effect of giving people like you excuses to be synical.
The difference is it’s 33 billion pounds, which is ~14 million metric TONS.
If you do the math it start looking achievable, and this is just some startup that gets its funding through charity. Imagine what the worlds governments could do taking this seriously. We could clean the ocean within a generation, which is amazing considering.
There’s a lot of greenwashing out there, this isn’t it. You might want to look up the definition of greenwashing.
Posted above, but that 33 billion is there to scare ppl, which also has the effect of giving people like you excuses to be synical.
The difference is it’s 33 billion pounds, which is ~14 million metric TONS.
If you do the math it start looking achievable, and this is just some startup that gets its funding through charity. Imagine what the worlds governments could do taking this seriously. We could clean the ocean within a generation, which is amazing considering.
There’s a lot of greenwashing out there, this isn’t it. You might want to look up the definition of greenwashing.
Did you just convert the units and magically now think that makes this any more achievable?! LOL
You’d need 100,000x the effort to simply tread water. Not to eliminate waste, mind you, but to simply keep up with what is dumped in each year.