• hydro033
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    31 year ago

    How is this possible given the rivers of plastic flowing out of Asian rivers? Seems like maybe a detectability issue.

    • @Cmot_Dibbler
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      51 year ago

      My thought too. This is saying that at least 73% of the garbage patch is the fishing industries fault. I’m sure they contribute a lot but that’s a lot a lot. Sounds like someone is trying to shift blame.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      I think more of a “coherency” issue – nets and fishing gear catch and tangle and clump and knot whereas something like bottles just bounce off each other – so unless the other plastics have become entangled in the fishing gear they don’t get counted …

      also worth noting, National Geographic is now owned by Disney so coverage of certain issues might be a little “adjusted” …