[ExI] plastic turkeys

[William Flynn Wallace]

thanks for the plastic info - bill w

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 3:52 PM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 21:24, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > plastics - whoever invents biodegradable ones will be superrich - ditto
> the person who invents a spray we can use on the floating islands of
> plastic flotsam and jetsam in the Pacific for them to degrade harmlessly
> -ditto for degradable styrofoam.  bill w
> > ______________________________________________
>
>
> What you suggest is correct. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch does
> exist. (Actually it is two patches, the East and West patches). But
> they are not floating islands - you can't actually see them.  :)
>
> <
> https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/
> >
> Quote:
> The amount of debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch accumulates
> because much of it is not biodegradable. Many plastics, for instance,
> do not wear down; they simply break into tinier and tinier pieces.
>
> For many people, the idea of a “garbage patch” conjures up images of
> an island of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches
> are almost entirely made up of tiny bits of plastic, called
> microplastics. Microplastics can’t always be seen by the naked eye.
> Even satellite imagery doesn’t show a giant patch of garbage. The
> microplastics of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch can simply make the
> water look like a cloudy soup.
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>
> The horrifying piles of plastic garbage that are frequently
> photographed come from harbours and beaches before they have had time
> to disintegrate into tiny microplastic fragments.
>
>
>
> BillK
>
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