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On Sun, 6/28/2026 6:13 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 6/28/2026 6:08 PM, Paul wrote:
What is also neat, is the *size* of ocean going garbage is getting
larger. There was another news story, where styrofoam blocks six foot
on edge, four of them, were found sitting on a beach. The garbage just
keeps getting bigger and bigger. Did those just "fall off" the
back of a pickup truck ?
By "garbage", I think you meant plastic fabric, as in fabrication. :)
Typically, plastic waste on beaches, requires a channel to act as a
collector of the stuff. The material is most visible at low tide.
This is a poor example photo, but it will have to do.
https://justoneocean.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DSCF3857.jpg
Empty plastic oil bottles lay on their side, and they don't stand up
like that on their own. A human interfered with the placement
in that photo.
If the conditions are right, there can be a lot of those bottles
on the beach, as well as plastic buoys from lobster trap setups,
pieces of rotting nylon rope and so on. A favorite at the beach,
is the plastic material holding a six-pack of aluminum beer cans,
which strangles seagulls when they get those around their neck.
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/e87fcba2-40c2-4420-977a-5064b054030f/plastic-multipack_3x2.jpg
The last time I was at the beach, there weren't any of those,
as they likely rot before they pile up.
You will notice that the Google collection of images, is not
random, and certain kinds of photos that might be more alarming,
concerning the amount of garbage in the ocean, are not shown.
A lot of the Google photos, show plastic drinking water bottles,
and the frequency of those showing at the beach is different.
The Pacific Gyre is huge. Most of it, it if did have plastic, they are micro-particles. But there are areas of thicker plastic, measured in
square miles, where a removal-machine could be more profitably
employed. You would never be able to clean the entire Gyre. It's
too late for that. Micro-particles are everywhere, even in the
Arctic circle. Nobody really wants to discuss plastic waste.
Paul
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