Our biggest ever river catch?
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Our biggest ever river catch?
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#2does anyone have a view of Ocean CleanUp as a charity to donate to?
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#3i'm curious about the split between capital versus philanthropic funding for an operation like this.
i feel certain that this relatively new (sub?)industry—waterway/ocean waste management—is here to stay for a very long time. but i struggle to see how it could ever turn a profit, unless and until they're able to generate revenue/s from the waste they're retrieving. it all feels like a fascinatingly super long play.
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#4I'm curious how much effort is being put into avoiding this trash ending up in the rivers in the first place. Obviously it's important to catch it before it gets in the ocean, but if people are just dumping directly into the river far upstream, this feels like a Sisyphian task
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#5i'm curious about the split between capital versus philanthropic funding for an operation like this. i feel certain that this relatively new (sub?)industry—waterway/ocean waste management—is here to stay for a very long time. but i struggle to see how it could ever turn a profit, unless and until they're able to generate revenue/s from the waste they're retrieving. it all feels like a fascinatingly super long play.
I imagine that it is not onerously expensive to run, and it's a good way for larger companies to look like they care by throwing a few nickels their way.
Further, I imagine that for some cities, the potential increase in tourism from having clean waters might be worth the investment.
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#6This is the kind of effort that money should be directed towards. Not the ad infested crap on eyeballs.
The ROI is literally cleaner environment. If there was only a way to tax proportional to emissions producers.
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#7I'm curious how much effort is being put into avoiding this trash ending up in the rivers in the first place. Obviously it's important to catch it before it gets in the ocean, but if people are just dumping directly into the river far upstream, this feels like a Sisyphian task
Having been to Guatemala, the culture is to throw most trash on the ground. The trash is then washed into the rivers during heavy rains. It's sad to see. The country has a lot of natural beauty, but there is trash everywhere.
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#8i'm curious about the split between capital versus philanthropic funding for an operation like this. i feel certain that this relatively new (sub?)industry—waterway/ocean waste management—is here to stay for a very long time. but i struggle to see how it could ever turn a profit, unless and until they're able to generate revenue/s from the waste they're retrieving. it all feels like a fascinatingly super long play.
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#9Credit to this organization from pivoting (AFAIK) from their original plan to scrape the plastic out of the water on the open ocean ("System 001"). Intercepting plastic at river mouths seems much more practical and cost effective.
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#10more on its wikipedia page (there's one in Los Angeles too)