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Reduction of the plastic continent?




by Flytox » 27/06/14, 18:47

The oceans are plastic seas and no one has succeeded in stemming this phenomenon. Except a 19 year old young man.

The news has been buzzing since the beginning of the week and you have all probably heard of Boyan Slat.

In October 2012, this Dutchman proposed to clean the oceans.

Yes yes, you read that right. The 17-year-old had come up with a revolutionary idea for cleaning the seas and repairing the damage done by men.

A native of the Netherlands, Boyan wanted to rid the oceans of the millions of tons of plastic that have been harming ocean fauna and flora for a while.

For his last year of high school project, he decides to start this titanic project using a sort of giant funnel to clean all known gyres *.

7,25 million tonnes of plastic could be recovered in 5 years.

Oddly enough, at the time, we took him for a madman rather than a genius. Here is a video of his feasibility study or how Boyan Slat clung to his idea.

Two years later, on June 3, 2014, Boyan announced the results of its feasibility study: his Ocean Cleanup project is completely feasible.


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http://positivr.fr/boyan-slat-the-ocean ... vid=4uJpEe
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by Ahmed » 27/06/14, 21:15

"This 17-year-old boy had come up with a revolutionary idea to clean the seas and repair the damage done by men"while making a profit!

In other words, the profit made by dumping waste in the garbage-bin was exempt from all criticism as soon as it became the source of a new profit ...

Circular and absurd logic that seems to reconcile opposites, while it only pursues its simplistic and irrational logic!

What was saying Bossuet?
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by highfly-addict » 27/06/14, 23:42

It : Arrowd: : Mrgreen:
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by chatelot16 » 28/06/14, 11:00

money controls everything

to stop any pollution by plastic waste, you have to give a financial value to plastic waste, and there will be less plastic waste thrown anyway

even those who do not have time to sort them will let me do it by those who have more time than money

compulsory and free recycling kills the recovery business by making zero or even negative plastic waste prices

even if technically the price of plastic waste risks being negative it would be necessary to favor or subsidize the recycling or recovery as fuel to make a price positive enough so that nobody lets them lose

in France it would be fairly easy to destroy all plastic waste that cannot be recycled as fuel

in hot countries it is more complicated because there is less need for fuel ... here too we have to do real ecology: we transport coal or petroleum well, why we would not also transport plastic waste to burn with us the plastic that clogs elsewhere? everyone would benefit: it would cost less than coal ... the vendors would get an income

but that does not prevent finding solutions to recover the plastic that accumulates at sea!

even if we miraculously stopped all new dispersions of plastic, there are already so many everywhere along the way between land and sea that this pollution will continue for a long time

we see all over the world discharges on the riverside ... at each flood automatic elimination towards the sea ...

maybe one day fishing boats will earn more money by looking for plastic than fish ???
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by Ahmed » 28/06/14, 12:52

Money controls everything.

This is why the pollution of the seas is not ready to stop ...

Compulsory and free recycling kills the recovery business by making zero or even negative plastic waste prices ...

Recycling is only "free" in appearance; in reality, it is the reverse that we observe: waste which is worth nothing at the beginning, is appreciated by the value of the unpaid work of the users who carry out the sorting ...
As a result, it is the value of this hidden work which is recovered through this plastic by the so-called "valuation" channels (by a kind of involuntary humor!).
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by chatelot16 » 28/06/14, 13:59

free is not the right word! I let you find a better one

when i say money controls everything it isn’t necessarily a problem if those who govern know how to set the taxes and make the right rules to use the money to steer things the right way

the current way of subsidizing plastic recycling is not good because it subsidizes large companies that are not very productive and do not give a penny to the base which should do all the work for free

by subsidizing otherwise, to make a positive purchase price in waste, we would motivate all those who lack money to sort the plastic to the last gram, and we would recover tons ... and he would not leave over to the sea

another way of advancing the schmilblic: building machines capable of burning any plastic properly without even being afraid of making dioxin with PVC: it seems that the good old gasifier easily achieves this goal: a gasifier mainly supplied with wood is capable of burning a certain proportion of plastic waste without any pollution: far better than incineration plants

alas it is the current completely bad incineration plants which are currently subsidized: most do not even value energy: operate in pure loss
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by Ahmed » 28/06/14, 14:24

When I say that money controls everything, it is not necessarily a problem if those who govern know how to set the taxes and make the right rules to use the money to steer things in the right direction.

However, that is the problem, because governments are by no means immune to its tyranny and all that is in their power is only to maximize the production of value.

The judicious solutions that you personally promote and which aim to correspond to the real needs of men are not at all in line with what drives the world: the irrational desire to indefinitely increase abstract value, without regard for no one, nor for anything.
If you look at it from this angle, many of the absurdities that you denounce (quite rightly) are easily explained.
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by Ahmed » 05/08/15, 16:14

An article in the “Télérama” for the holidays talks about “this beautiful story” commented in a very critical way by specialists in marine ecosystems and marine pollution ...

In addition to the technical impossibilities and absurdities noted, some also note the contradiction which means that the promotion of this method is likely to encourage the extravagant use of plastic: this exemption from conscience is certainly not unrelated to its success (see : Arrowu:).

The system of Boyan Slat has demonstrated its media efficiency and its correlative capacity to collect hard cash (for want of plastics!). :P
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by moinsdewatt » 05/08/15, 18:23

Boyan Slat will finally carry out his project. After gaining worldwide fame via social media for his determination to clean the oceans of their plastic pollution, and the ingenuity he showed in inventing a system to address it, the 20-year-old Dutchman launched a crowdfunding campaign, which was a huge success, earning him 2 million euros in just a few months. Thanks to the money raised, the young Dutch entrepreneur will deploy his first ocean cleaning system, of which he is the inventor and designer, by 2016. He announced this good news during a conference on the technology, Seoul Digital Forum in South Korea on May 20.

What will become the world's first waste cleaning device in action will be deployed off the coast of Tsushima, an island between Japan and South Korea. It will take the form of a gigantic floating funnel of almost 2000 meters, fitted with underwater panels which make it possible to retain plastic waste. the system is designed to work with currents, without energy expenditure, and not to harm underwater life. This project was assessed as viable and effective by a team of more than 100 experts, who have now joined "The Ocean Cleanup", the foundation that Boyan Slat created to carry out his project.
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http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/les-news/ac ... 016-15667/

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View of the Boyan Slat project near Tsushima Island. © Ocean CleanUp [/B]
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by Ahmed » 05/08/15, 19:10

The technique that saves us from the technique: it's as beautiful as a sunset on the CAC 40! :P

In any case it is likely to please the readers of "Figaro" who are, for the most part, well involved in the destruction of living conditions on earth, by confirming them in the merits of their approach ...
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