Monitoring marine litter from space
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Re: Monitoring marine litter from space
#2What’s the use of tracking waste if no efforts will be done to stop its production? Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts. Maybe I’m being too cynical?
Re: Monitoring marine litter from space
#3What’s the use of tracking waste if no efforts will be done to stop its production? Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts. Maybe I’m being too cynical?
Awareness is just step one.
Re: Monitoring marine litter from space
#4What’s the use of tracking waste if no efforts will be done to stop its production? Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts. Maybe I’m being too cynical?
Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts.
There's a multi-trillion dollar startup just waiting for you to solve that problem.
Re: Monitoring marine litter from space
#5What’s the use of tracking waste if no efforts will be done to stop its production? Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts. Maybe I’m being too cynical?
Have fun trying to persuade people to give you money to help stop it, when the corporations producing it can pay the same people a lot to stop you
Re: Monitoring marine litter from space
#6What’s the use of tracking waste if no efforts will be done to stop its production? Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts. Maybe I’m being too cynical?
If you catch someone littering, you can fine them. Theoretically.
Re: Monitoring marine litter from space
#7What’s the use of tracking waste if no efforts will be done to stop its production? Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts. Maybe I’m being too cynical?
Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts. There's a multi-trillion dollar startup just waiting for you to solve that problem.
ah yes, get ready for the startup that will solve EDCs in my ballsack and the ballsacks of all my descendents.
Re: Monitoring marine litter from space
#8At some point I wonder if its going to be viable to harvest ocean plastic, and use it to produce energy .. and every time I see one of my favourite remote-beach Youtubers climb over piles of plastic rubble on some remote tropical island, I can't help get the feeling that there has to be some kind of way to make a portable, self-replicating 3D printer that can go out there and just reproduce itself.
But I guess the chemistry behind all of this is beyond me. It sure seems like the 3D-printing revolution needs to be followed up with a plastics-deconstruction phase, so that 3D printers don't get factory-produced spools of future ocean-bound plastics, but rather a giant hopper into which one can pile collected plastics from the environment. Some sort of primordial proto-Feed, I guess ..
Re: Monitoring marine litter from space
#9What’s the use of tracking waste if no efforts will be done to stop its production? Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts. Maybe I’m being too cynical?
The more information we have about where waste comes from, the more we can target our efforts at reducing it to the biggest sources
Re: Monitoring marine litter from space
#10What’s the use of tracking waste if no efforts will be done to stop its production? Cleanups are nice and all but you gotta stop the bleeding where it starts. Maybe I’m being too cynical?
Now in the UN, or at the next climate conference, people can actually say:
"Look, Vietnam, you are somehow responsible for 12.2% of the marine plastic in the ocean, with only 1.23% of the world population. We are making this trade agreement or that international investment conditional on that number improving by 2028."
Before, there was simply no way of monitoring these things. I had to invent that number. That is a massive problem in terms of the politics.
And it goes up the hierarchy as well. Vietnam can now also go "Ho Chi Minh City, look at this map, how on earth did that happen?"
Now we can actually monitor it, it's a way of keeping countries on the promises they have already made: https://www.oecd.org/ocean/topics/ocean-pollution/marine-pla...