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What is the estimated cost to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

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What is the estimated price tag regarding the cleanup of plastic pollution particularly from the great pacific garbage gouge?

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The Ocean Cleanup’s cost estimate to eradicate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in ten years is $7.5 billion. But, now with new technologies, and especially their new strategy 'hotspot hunting', they think it might be cut back to four years and $4 billion.
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now we should bill the plastics industry for the cleanup
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Less than $1B per year is spare change on a global scale.
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make the plastic companies pay for it
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Wow that's like 1/10 of a Twitter, to clean up the whole ocean? Wow
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I think he’ll get the money or at least extremely close to it, companies already have an interest in things like this because it looks good for them to donate too and is a good tax cut, while also allowing them to make contributions to helping with climate change
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Really nice initiative that gives me hope. 4B is nothing at this scale. Moving from 10 years to 5 it's also a huge improvement. In 10 years a large part of that plastic will already be on the ocean floor at best or in our food.
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That’s basically like 3 SF apartments
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Wow, that’s cheaper than what i expected.
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7.5B over 10 years?  That's NOT that much money for a worldwide problem.
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Do it NOW! I don't care how much it costs!  We're saving ourselves in the end!
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I'm curious how quickly the patch begins to re-form. Is there a rate at which we're playing whack-a-mole?
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and what about micro-plastics?
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The should charge the 7.5B to all the companies that created the problem. Like CocaCola, Nestle, all the fashion industry etc…
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Can someone tell me where the garbage patch came from? Who dumped all that garbage?
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Imagine if the same amount of money was spent stopping the trash at sources. Not even mouths of rivers but actually in the places that trash is mishandled. The benefit and effect would be 1000x more. This project makes sense if and only if we already have those kinds of stoppers being implemented. It's the same logic as cleaning up the flooded basement before stopping the leak. Completely irrational at least in terms of most effective use of $ or economic output.
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Each continent should have atleast 10 pair of cleanup vessels of their own to do this, minimum.
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FUND IT
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Just USA Pacific Ocean or from Alaska to chile?
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does this account for microplastics? Cause I thought the GGP was mostly microplastics?
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Create a plastic tax on virgin plastics to fund it.
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That's not that much money, totally do-able between corporations, and government.
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7.5 billion isnt staggering for a 10 yr roi. for an ocean that gives us TRILLIONS of dollars a year. dummie logic with how they introduced that.
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7.5 billion is not much compared to what this would accomplish. The title makes it sound like it was going to cost trillions. Just more clickbait BS.
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Come on Elon, open your wallet buddy…
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I like these guys but can’t help to think, how nice of them to come up with a plan to collect $4 Billion for themselves.. I mean, ocean cleanup..
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7 billion to clean that up wtf? That seems a bit high.
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So where is Elon? I thought he cares about humanity…44 Billion for Twitter but no money for that?
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US military could find this money in their couch cushions from 1 year of operations.
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This guy is being around with the same pitch... asking for $$ and delivering nothing.. now it is in the billions!! hasn't anybody chk this?
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