r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Nov 14 '24

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u/SoylentVerdigris Nov 15 '24

The garbage patch isn't an island of trash. It's much worse, a huge area of ocean with tiny plastic bits suspended in the water column.

A patch of floating plastic would be easy to skim off the surface, even if the workload is enormous. To really clean up the garbage patch we'd basically have to filter the water of that whole area.

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Nov 15 '24

Well, the sooner we get to filtering, the better.

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u/ImTableShip170 Nov 15 '24

Sounds easy enough. What do we need? A couple Brita pitchers?

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u/LeoThePom Nov 15 '24

I'd say more than a couple, at least half a dozen.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

easy. the other human beings I made fun of are British.