Alok Jain’s Post

If ýou throw a paper cup from your car you likely can face a fine for littering. But if you cut a net from your boat, or dump garbage from a freighter nobody says anything. Every freighter should be forced to account fir their garbage when they enter port, every fishing trawler should account for every net.

The only real way this pollution is to stop relying so much on plastic. If I can say, this cleaning is a drop of water in an ocean of garbage. And it’s very expensive. Plus, what do we do with everything we remove from the oceans? Most of this is not recyclable, anymore, if it ever was. We need to stop producing so much plastic, more and more every year. It’s not sustainable for the planet. The main issue is that plastic is cheap and versatile, easy to produce and use. All alternatives are simply more expensive. And I believe that, globally, only 10% of the plastic produced every year is recycled. 90% will end up in landfills or oceans. Crazy!

We shall fix the root cause, not only the results 🤷♂️ If some countires will continue to throw garbage to the rivers or oceans, you can clean it up for ever 🤦♂️

This is so great to see! Seven years ago when my son was in first grade he learned about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and wanted to find a way to clean it up… Later in the school year they had a project to present to the class. He drew out a contraption not too dissimilar to the process being used. Unfortunately when he presented it to his class his teacher laughed at him in front of the whole class saying that his idea was ridiculous and could never work. So for our family it is great to see innovation in practice and hope young innovative minds are taken as inspiration for achieving the unachievable and never laughed at!

You have to be caught to get a litter fine. How many are actually caught? Not many if any where I live. People in SW Virginia think the roadside is their personal dumping ground. People should be fined and made to do litter pick up for many hours.

It’s amazing to see so much being done to protect our seas and oceans and preserve their ecosystems! We are also working in this area. We have developed the technology for producing AquaGuard nonwoven material, which enables the cleanup of marine waters from oil and petroleum pollution. You can find an article and video about it on my profile https://www.linkedin.com/posts/drmagdalenalaabs_aquaguard-oilspillcleanup-environmentalprotection-activity-7267159082564730880-u9Jo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Now go to the core and fine the "litter bugs". Some are always thinking, oh someone else will clean up after me...

What you have set up and are doing is absolutely fantastic mate.. .wonderful person!!!!

This is awesome and great... no doubt about it... However, governments worldwide must enforce VERY strict measures against such tremendous (insane) levels of waste and pollution to our planet and all life in it - including us, humans!! - in the first place this must NOT be allowed to have happened! Measures include extremely high fines against anyone being wasteful / polluting environment, producing only eco-friendly products - especially those related to packaging - and enforcing renewable energy on all countries making it illegal to continue using fossil fuel - the major and main cause of pollutants worldwide.

In west and Europe it seems so normal... Imagine if everyone drove 1 car, had 1 bike, and 1 house, that's near 8 billion of each.. on top of that imagine if everyone used and consumed all the resources they do based on daily bases.. Earth would have ran out of importance resources long ago.. Instead 20% of people consume and waste 80% of earth's resources.... let that sink in.... and the other 80% of people consume 20% of earth's resources... let that sink in also.. Majority of wast comes from Western Countries and European Nations... Yet you see the same group of people talk about cleaning the earth and so on, while they themselves are the source of problem... The items and products you use are mostly manufactured in poor countries at low cost, which is high for them to afford, but very cheap for the consumers, so the consumers think they are entitled to such products, while they are truly ungrateful and spoiled.... They consume because their powerful nation allows them to do so, and has made it so normal, that if you don't consume and waste, you are either poor or are not living to your full potential.. Such toxic mindset, and you see people dreaming of luxury without knowing the consequences it has on globe and its lifeforms