Subj : Re: more cannabis stores than needed
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Mon Jun 12 2023 09:59:28

Alan,
 
AI> You asked for a picture (there is more, if you care look it up) and I
AI> gave you a story to look at that included a picture.
 
AI> I'm sorry that garbage patch isn't what you were looking for!
 
I am aware of the "Chile Today" publication but the photo there has got nothing to do with a mid-ocean plastic waste island which has now been reduced to the well known patch or vortex. Look at the horizon of the photo, it's even in-shore and in Japan after the 2011 Tsunami there. It's not even established it's major plastic debris (not waste, that's different) or something else.
 
The reality is it cannot be photographed. You could be in your boat, sail through it and not even notice it, catch fish for food.
 
It doesn't mean it isn't there, it means there is no trash island to photograph, there even is no trash patch photos in existance. Not in "Nature", not in "National Geographic", not in "NASA immagery".
 
Photos being used by "Ocean Cleanup", the non-profit started by Dutch college drop-out Boyan Slat, were staged on deck of a Maersk vessel.
 
The plastic waste problem cannot be solved if it is not tackled at the source, and the source is a stretch from the Indian peninsula comprising the coasts of the whole of SE Asia where waste is simply dumped in rivers by garbage trucks. North America is not the problem, South America is not the problem, Europe is not the problem ... Mainland Asia is. And no issuing plastic bags at our supermarkets is not going to solve a thing, it's not the source of the problem ... the source of the problem is elsewhere. When supermarkets issue no longer plastic bags, it's not out of environmental concern, but to cut costs...while at the same time they use thin-film packaging for foods which is considered OK...
 
Take care,
 
 \%/@rd

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