I will buy a hat and eat it if this happens.
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2024
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A plastic hat?
Marble. I'm pretty confident.
I'll buy you some condiments to put on it.
We could do many things in a decade. We won't, but we could.
Think about all the things we could fuck up in 10 years, so many possibilities!
Will it tho?
Yes, all they need is for someone to spend $7.5 billion on it.
Unfortunately, billionaires seem to be less willing to remove trash from the oceans than add themselves to it.
IIRC plastic waste in the ocean have a half life of about one year. In that case it mostly means that in a year, half of the waste are going to end up on a shore. Stop adding plastic and the patch will shrink x1024 in 10 years.