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MvdM said:
Do these images also show the plastic bags that are in the sea?
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Yeah you fell for fake news. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is around 5 mg/square meter of plastic, and about 90 micrograms per cubic meter. They filter millions of gallons of water, and then they have to use microscopes to identify the plastic from all the other stuff that naturally occurs in the ocean like wood, sand and dead organic matter.

Any pictures that you see of bags floating as a garbage patch is fake news.
 
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konqerror said:
Yeah you fell for fake news. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is around 5 mg/square meter of plastic, and about 90 micrograms per cubic meter. They filter millions of gallons of water, and then they have to use microscopes to identify the plastic from all the other stuff that naturally occurs in the ocean like wood, sand and dead organic matter.

Any pictures that you see of bags floating as a garbage patch is fake news.
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Based on the news you watch, which, I know you will find hard to believe, may be somewhat unreliable. (Sorry, but I’m not an idiot who says something is “fake news” just because I don’t agree with it.)

I’ve seen the actual garbage, not just a photo, because I actually get out in the world, not just watch it on TV.

You see, the sea is like the land, in that population is not evenly distributed, even when it comes to garbage. Most of the sea is empty, if you consider the depth as well as the surface area. It’s sparsely populated when you consider only the depths where most life thrives. But life tends to congregate where it’s best suited, as does trash. So, yes, if you take the total amount of trash people see (which is only the trash on the surface, not the stuff piled up at some pretty great depths) and divide it over the total surface area, it doesn’t seem like much. But when you consider that it congregates along currents & collects along eddies, it gets pretty crowded.

The Earth is sparsely populated. But go to Manila or Mumbai and try to believe that.

Besides, in the end, garbage is garbage and who wants that stuff around? No one. That’s why it’s called garbage.
 
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Joniz said:
Based on the news you watch, which, I know you will find hard to believe, may be somewhat unreliable. (Sorry, but I’m not an idiot who says something is “fake news” just because I don’t agree with it.)

I’ve seen the actual garbage, not just a photo, because I actually get out in the world, not just watch it on TV.
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I raise your anecdotal claim and insult with peer reviewed science:
www.nature.com

Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic - Scientific Reports

Ocean plastic can persist in sea surface waters, eventually accumulating in remote areas of the world’s oceans. Here we characterise and quantify a major ocean plastic accumulation zone formed in subtropical waters between California and Hawaii: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). Our model...
www.nature.com www.nature.com

Somebody who actually is educated would say, "I see he is making a specific quantitative claim. It's probably from an actual scientific study and not somebody's feelings. I'm going to do some further research and look into it because I apparently am lacking knowledge in that area."
 
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Joniz said:
Based on the news you watch, which, I know you will find hard to believe, may be somewhat unreliable. (Sorry, but I’m not an idiot who says something is “fake news” just because I don’t agree with it.)

I’ve seen the actual garbage, not just a photo, because I actually get out in the world, not just watch it on TV.
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konqerror said:
I raise your anecdotal claim and insult with peer reviewed science:
www.nature.com

Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic - Scientific Reports

Ocean plastic can persist in sea surface waters, eventually accumulating in remote areas of the world’s oceans. Here we characterise and quantify a major ocean plastic accumulation zone formed in subtropical waters between California and Hawaii: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP). Our model...
www.nature.com www.nature.com
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I updated my comment above as you were writing this.

The article is about a study of micro plastics, which is not what I would consider a plastic bag, and the effect on a specific organism. They are not even looking at the same thing, but in the end, it says that the micro plastics have been increasing. Not that it’s relevant to the comment about plastic bags at all.

And more to the point, the writer was just making a facetious comment.
 
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Joniz said:
I updated my comment above as you were writing this.

The article is about a study of micro plastics, which is not what I would consider a plastic bag, and the effect on a specific organism. They are not even looking at the same thing, but in the end, it says that the micro plastics have been increasing. Not that it’s relevant to the comment about plastic bags at all.
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Nope. You didn't read it at all. The Nat Sci Rep article goes through all kinds of plastics. That article even explains that plastic bags aren't found

Plastic films however, representing around 37% of PE and PP waste generation, were rarely found. We hypothesize that most buoyant plastic with insufficient volume-to-surface ratios such as films may never reach the surface waters of the GPGP as they may rapidly sink to the seafloor due to biofouling and/or fragment into microscopic pieces that are removed from surface layers.
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Secondly, at least half of the collected GPGP plastics was composed of objects from marine based sources, while the relative source amplitudes considered in our model predicted that mass contributions from land-based plastics, even though lower than global average, would still dominate in these offshore environments.
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Nonetheless, the GPGP dominance of marine-sourced plastics could also be attributed to their purposely engineered durability in the marine environment (e.g. strong and thick-walled nets, traps, ropes, and floats used by marine industries) as well as overestimations of land-based sources and/or underestimations of marine-based sources.
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Translation: it's fishing nets and lines. Stop eating fish, wild caught and farmed, and stop shipping stuff from China by boat. Of course, that's not what the media and politicians say, they want to guilt you into thinking it's your fault for using plastic shopping bags.

Funny how actual experimental science works...
 
The Aerial type does seem wrong with the new videos. Calling them HDR instead of leaving it Aerial would have worked better.
 
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