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The fact this is necessary is gross.

Remedies are out there.

Can Americans measure in anything other than "football" fields?

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Great if it's true

Wow 😮

Wonderful

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Better still would be to lessen our use of plastics.

Love this! Dispose of your trash properly, people! It shouldn't take a crazy cool device to clean up after humans who litter like this world is disposable; do it yourselves!

As long as there's no "By-Catch", it seems like a good idea 🤔

Back in the 1960’s when the “recycling bing” came into existence, it seemed like a great idea! Unfortunately, like many things, they took the “easy “ way out. Instead of reusing/recycling, we now have huge barges of plastic floating all over the world. Why spend the money to reuse!😩😵‍💫🤬

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looks like it's minimal, not sure, but better than letting the trash stay in the water.

It kills quite a lot of them. But slowly: slate.com/technology/2...

I’m glad we have that, but sad it has to be used.

Can it fit in the White House?

How disgustingly sad this needs to be done. Huge respect for all involved.

Ugh, should be ‘wonder’ not wind err. Sorry!

Erm...it doesn't slate.com/technology/2...

Pointless performance unless the issue of effective rubbish collection preventing getting there in the first place

😎🪴🌵 that is so very necessary. A special hat tip of thanks to the folks operating the mechanism. Are they scheduling anything with the newly renamed America Ocean?

This is what we should be spending money on. Not wars. Not destroying the earth but saving her.

Let them, they'll look pretty ridiculous threatening a 70 yr old bed ridden woman. Though I would not hesitate to volunteer for their firing squads, I do believe in due process. No I was referring to all the death threats he & his wife constantly whine about which is ironic yet clearly deserved.

Let's kiss it to the sun....

You can burn it absolutely safely in appropriate plant

Aren't they finding other ways to remove plastic from land based locations, too, like something that actually eats micro plastic? I'll look for the article I read recently and post it.

Plastic makes sense in some applications. But for food & liquid. as a disposable container it's terrible. The problem is NGL's as a byproduct of natural gas refinement is so very cheap. So it's very cost-sensible. But the way they make such plastic—it isn't biodegradable & recycling is more costly.

I think about this scene weekly. The future? In a word… PLASTICS!!

we can launch that bih into space

On a smaller level, and I’m only beginning w/ them hence I’ve not much info, but Ridwell has a very good service, both mail in & depending on State, pick up & has definite markets for the various plastics they take in that municipal recycling doesn’t. We should all check them out! 🙏🩵👊♻️🌎

Great, now if we can keep garbage in landfills intead of the oceans we'll be on the right track.

If this is true and it works hallelujah.

Send it to Rapa Nui, please! They are being inundated with microplastics.

Burn it on the beach.

Not exactly aware of what I did, but still, thank you to you too

Plastic waste continues to be dumped into our oceans by countries that mismanage their waste. The Philippines, India, Malaysia, China and Indonesia to name a few.

WOW! Great, but so sad that we even need this!

Yes, indeed.

Interesting

NOT sponsored by Elon Musk.

Build 3000 of these on permanent patrol.

So am I.

Is this true?

They dont. Ocean clean up does more harm than good. Kills sea life using nets pulled by diesel powered boats

Dare to dream...

Thanks, I was wondering why none of the articles cited had the photo above.

And what do they do with all the trash they scoop up?

Sounds good, unless it also catches sea life...

There are lots of theoretical/prototype versions of "ocean cleaners." Look at "The Ocean Cleanup" and "SeaVax," "WasteShark" and "ClearBot." I don't think a lot of people have any idea of just how big the oceans are.

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And it's true. I had to check cause it sounded to good.

Plastic is so handy - who would have thought there might be a downside!

When humanity earns their name. 🫶🏼

Good 👍

The modern digital paradox: we've reached the pinnacle of human communication technology just to revert back to pointing at things and nodding.

that looks fake as fuck

Great! But then where does it go?🤔

What do they then do with all the rubbish?

Some companies buy certain plastics to recycle into materials for clothing and other items. We have a couple companies here in Hawaii that use these fabrics for neoprene type dive gear, rash guards etc. Kumana and Tropical Seas are two but there’s several others like Nudi Wear.

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Goes to show, it can be done.

Hope it’s real

24 years free of single-use plastic bottles.

Dutch engineers 👊🏽

This is just engagement bait bollocks for gullible left leaning people

Great concept, we have a lot of work to do on prevention though

Are major costal cities still dumping their trash into the ocean? If so this will be a perpetual problem.

this is amazing

We need positive news. That's one of them!

Eastern Shore here. We love our ocean.

This post contains no information about the device, not who built it, now how long it's been operating, not how much trash it collects, just a claim about how much area it covers. No links, no reference points to other publications. Doesn't even have a real photograph or the name of the device. Sus

That is a nice AI generated image. Does it actually exist?

HOLY MOLY!!!!!!

What happens to it all afterwards? How do we dispose of all this poison safely?

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The first thing is to stop dumping plastic in the seas. Clean-up might help a bit, but first - stop the ongoing pollution.

Can anyone confirm this? It's fantastic if real.

Anyone know who invented this? Hoping it's an example of American ingenuity.

So amazing!

AWESOME!! what do they do with all that garbage though?

This is what we should be doing.

That’s my memory too.

Who made this?🫪

Roll the film.

And I imagine you gave up because of course you discovered how expensive it is to sort plastic, because you would only want the good stuff with long polymer chains and not the rubbish that's been breaking down in seawater and sunlight for years. Alas, plastic is not glass.

Phew! I thought someone had photographed the edge of the flat earth

Who is the brilliant person or persons who are responsible for this, remarkable!!

That device will sweep through the Great Garbage Island and eradicate dozens of new species! Yay?

Technology can be used for good and not just greed

Elon Musk owns businesses that have an active physical and commercial presence in Mumbai. youtu.be/a4W8IQocBKQ

Will Trump do this to the blue states in America? Republicans must stop TRUMP!! youtu.be/sS5mq0htd38

Surprise: slate.com/technology/2...

Excellent. sooooooo .... what do you do with it now?

Sadly until we stop the problem at the source

I think this is fantastic, but we really need to stop this at its source. If we keep polluting then we have to keep cleaning it up.

Not storm proof. Big water will break it into more floating plastic

There should be big fines for cruise ships and they should pay for clean up

.. What do they do with it all then ? ... The Great "Garbage Wars" took them down in the movie Idiocracy .. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2t...

Where do they put what they've collected?

Sorted, then certain types that can be recycled are, like plastic bottles can be made into a multitude of things, including fabrics. Nets can be recycled into numerous items as well. Anything with no value is taken to landfills.