The excellent article on infranetlab linked above is mainly about garbage islands created to solve inhabited islands’ garbage problems, but it has a little section on the Pacific Garbage Gyres. That’s right, there’s now two, they’re growing at a pace of 10x every decade, and combined they have a greater area than the continental United States now.
Holy. Fuck.
That’s a big ball of garbage.
So: a factory ship that collects, recycles and builds new objects out of the junk it scoops up from the ocean? Solar power, pescatarian crew, maybe some solar stills to collect water to run greenhouses? Or maybe totally remote operated, crewed by robots.
I don’t know what the answer is, but I do know one thing: if we turn the entire planetary ocean into a big wash of garbage, we will probably not long survive it.
edit: here’s my first story and second on the gyre, which includes a bunch of links and a TED talk.
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