I am happy to hear this but I always wonder what they do with it. Drag it out of the ocean and put it in a landfill?
During the week-long journey from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch back to port, the trash gets sorted on the ship, and the nonprofit recycles as much material as possible.
The nonprofit then works with partners worldwide to ensure that the products made with the recycled plastic are not ones that will end up back in oceans or rivers, Tobin said, adding that one of those partnerships is with a Korean car manufacturer that uses the plastics in the construction of electric vehicles.
“We just want to make sure it doesn’t end up back where we found it,” Tobin said.
I think the worldwide partners are just going to smelt it down for that deadly, deadly chromium.
He who smelt it…
Love hearing this and hope we can continue to clean up what we’ve done and eliminate the root causes.
This video was super interesting. Basically some organisms thrive in the garbage patch. https://youtu.be/O7OzRzs_u-8
The root cause being a lot of underdeveloped countries just dump into rivers and streams. Which just float out to the oceans. We need world govs. To step in and fix the way they dispose of their trash. This is a good start though.
That’s not true. Most of it is from commercial fishing. Here’s a source, from the group doing this cleanup.
Somebody should remind them not to shit where they eat.
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i don’t think that works.
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if the plastic is still accumulating, how are you helping?
