Great interview with Boyan Slat on AO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNWiqq0UxN0
Our biggest ever river catch?
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Re: Our biggest ever river catch?
#92Why can’t we just start charging producers of waste a direct cost. If we charged producers (McDonald’s, coke, Pepsi, supermarket, uniliver etc) $1 for every plastic bottle they used, we’d have a budget for clean up and a change in motivations. Suddenly glass reuse programs are suddenly cost comparable etc
Because plastic from McDonald's is not that big a problem. Fishing gear https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/07/invisibl... and carbon fibers are much bigger https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230703133034.h... plastic polluters.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Basically yes. Petroleum burned produces CO2. Petroleum plasticized does not. The more market share that plastic packaging eats up, the lower emissions are.
I’d call that being more neutral than a sink unless I’m misunderstanding you. I consider paper a sink, because trees are actively sequestering atmospheric CO2.
Standing trees will aways be more of a carbon sink than dead flat trees.
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#94A commendable operation but sadly, this is a very small fraction of a percentage of the 8-10 million tons of plastic entering the ocean each year. The Ocean Cleanup themselves have estimated at least 75% of ocean trash is from fishing boats, and from living on a remote tropical island myself, at least 90% of the things you find washed up on the beach appear to be from Chinese fishing vessels. (there's usually Chinese…
I’m glad I’m doing my part one straw at a time /s
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#95I LOVE this company. We need more of them. Innovative, Solving world problems. Aware of their impact. I am always encouraging people to donate. These are the kinds of projects that might save us. I wish YC, and it's kin, would fund companies like this.
Wouldn’t make sense for YC - where’s their return?
It would require both treaties and some way this company can be the preferred supplier (maybe a 10 year contract to operate).
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean it is a carbon sink? Extracting oil from underground then turning it into plastic above ground? Or do you mean something different?
Basically yes. Petroleum burned produces CO2. Petroleum plasticized does not. The more market share that plastic packaging eats up, the lower emissions are.
An Iran Israel war would have the same effect.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d call that being more neutral than a sink unless I’m misunderstanding you. I consider paper a sink, because trees are actively sequestering atmospheric CO2.
Standing trees will aways be more of a carbon sink than dead flat trees.
A tree captures CO2 so, of course, but tangental.
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#98I got a choice of "Settings" and "Accept all cookies". I closed the tab.
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#99Whats the economics of burning it as fuel on site to generate power. Sounds bad but might be better than landfilling it and letting off methane.
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#100I got a choice of "Settings" and "Accept all cookies". I closed the tab.
The choices in settings were "Required" and "Optimal", with optimal being added tracking and adtech.
Not sure if or why a NGO would need either of those.