The non-profit organization The Ocean Cleanup shared a video about the waste they collect after collecting money from people to collect plastic waste in the seas. The shared video caused controversy when scientists said it did not reflect the truth.
You know that our seas and oceans are getting more and more polluted with human and chemical wastes every day. These wastes around us continue to endanger the lives of not only us, but also all living things, and cause many living things to die. Some institutions and organizations are doing their best to clean up this pollution. However, the situation may not always be as expected.
Recently, an organization that raises money to clean up the dirt in the oceans released a video of the waste they collect. Many people sent congratulatory messages and thanked them after this video. A group of marine biologists, on the other hand, made statements about the video that would create a bombshell effect on the agenda.
“There is no way that the removed waste looks this clean”
The Ocean Cleanup has raised more than $100 million from people saying it will clean up plastic waste in an area between California and Hawaii. After this money collected, The Ocean Cleanup weighing about 3800 kg He shared a 25-second video on Twitter showing how they removed plastic waste. A group of marine biologists didn’t think the same about the video, which received many congratulations and thank you messages. Plastic waste shown in the video in the sea they are too ‘clean’ to have spent a long time, He said that normally these wastes should be littered with marine organisms such as algae and mussels.
On top of these rhetoric, The Ocean Cleanup does not carry the nutrients necessary for the growth of marine organisms and that’s why the plastic looks so clean. Again, many scientists and marine biologists said that these statements cannot be true. denied this statement. After this discussion, which caused many questions in the minds of many people, some scientists actually ‘a futile effort’ claimed it was.
The sharing of The Ocean Cleanup, which started all these discussions:
Attempting to clean open oceans could harm marine life
Plastic production has nearly doubled in the last 10 years. 460 million metric tons reached, but only a small fraction of these plastics can be recycled. Non-recyclable plastics burned, buried, or to the sea and the environment. against. Some projections based on this data suggest that by 2050 there will be oceans in the ocean. more plastic waste than fish suggests it will. Scientists, on the other hand, say that while there is so much plastic waste and it continues to be produced, cleaning it up is a futile effort.
Katie Matthews, Oceana’s chief scientist, likened this to ‘wiping up spillage while the spigot is still open’. “We cannot clear our way out of plastic pollution” says. Trying to clean the open oceans may be ‘in vain’ or even ‘harmful’ Many scientists who joined Matthews by saying that the waste in the area to be cleaned is generally created by ‘cleaners’ and that may cause the death of sea creatures. stated.
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Scientists say that while so much plastic production continues, it is very difficult to collect plastic waste and first of all, it is necessary to make less waste. companies reduce their plastic production says it should. We are once again faced with the fact that single-use plastics turn into waste in a very short time, but it can take centuries for these wastes to dissolve in nature. One of the most effective things we can do is to protect nature and our environment. minimizing our use of plastic whenever possible should be.
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https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/22949475/ocean-plastic-pollution-cleanup