Inside the Plastic Vortex
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recycle? people these days... too lazy to walk over to a recyling bin or a trash can :/
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If we could engineer away to turn those plastic flakes into gasoline "The Market "would create a demand and that stuff would become a commodity and then the process would revers.
after all plastic is petroleum based.It is just a matter of perception
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Humans can't even visualize numbers over a couple hundred. How will they even be able to feel responsible for something so abstract and "out of sight and mind" as this? The answer? Great videos like this to continue to drawing focus to it. Thank you.
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Wow. That is just really sucks. bu the thing that sucks most is that I know I could be contributiing to this! Ughh
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I dont buy plastic, its actually really easy.
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stop buying plastic!!
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We should boil the plastic to convert it back into oil.
Send some ships out with giant nets to capture all this stuff then convert it back to oil and usable materials.
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