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Alan,
 
AI> >> Ooh, there's a giant island of plastic in the ocean!
 
AI> > Is there?
 
AI> > Where are the photos?
 
AI> This story is from 2019.
 
AI> https://chiletoday.cl/floating-garbage-patches-grow-in-the-pacific-ocean/
 
Pls do not change the subject ... the mention was "a giant island of plastic
in the ocean" ... but you are now mentioning "garbage patches".
 
So show me some photos of a "giant island of plastic" ... No photo? No NASA
imagery? Sorry Alan, didn't happen ... no island.
 
And I have a pretty good idea of what I'm talking about after a lifetime of
environmental protecion (OK, OK ... 51 years now) working for UNEP (UN
Environmental Programme), the European Environmental Bureau, Greenpeace, the
International Water Tribunal and others ...
 
I am aware of large trash heaps for example at Bohuslan on the Swedish coast
where I helped remove a roughly 3 meter layer of compacted plastics of all
kinds of sources ... There are photos of that trash heap ... but there is no
"giant island of plastic garbage" in the ocean. That "island" has become an
urban legend, told over and over again to such an extent it is even mentioned
in scientific publications but without proof.
 
Let me share with you another story ... with the Dublin Bay Environment Group
(Ireland) we had annual campaigns of cleaning the beaches there by picking up
used condoms and plastic backs of women's sanitary pads. The church was very
powerful and the use of condoms was frowned upon, so after use they were
flushed through the toilet in order to leave no trace. We collected all that
in a hazaqrd-free way and it was recycled into benches which were placed
throughout town ... I never sat on a plastic Irish bench anymore.
 
 \%/@rd 

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