Current Events > How does plastic end up in the ocean and not the dump?

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Aside from littering. Because plastic is bad for the ocean somehow even if you throw it away properly?

Wind

A lot of it is from fishing. They just dump stuff there and abandon them, like those giant nets

ThyCorndog posted...

A lot of it is from fishing. They just dump stuff there and abandon them, like those giant nets

Dakimakura posted...

Wind

I think both of these have merit, and your littering idea is sound too. Corndog is right about the nets, and Daki is on the right track with wind. I think a lot of it comes from littering, with trash being blown into waterways if it wasn't thrown there to begin with.

The two most disposable substances in our society are paper and plastic. Paper breaks up - it still pollutes, but it breaks up for the most part. Plastic stays intact. So someone tosses some trash out, and it eventually gets blown into waterways. Not only does it fuck up smaller inland creeks and rivers, but it ends up in major waterways that wash out to the sea.

ThyCorndog posted...

A lot of it is from fishing. They just dump stuff there and abandon them, like those giant nets

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I mean yeah it sucks but a billion other bad things happen to us anyway. It's not gonna stop us from being immortal or anything. So that doesn't bother me much.

It still sucks but I could leave the house and die in a car crash today too. That's a lot worse than 50 years.

Like global warming. Apparently that's gonna happen and fuck all of us too. What are we supposed to do about it? Apparently if all vehicles in the world disappeared overnight it would still happen.