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125,000 tons of plastic rubbish was being shipped from
Australia
to China every year, till they stopped taking it in. Now it is
shipped to Malasia where it is burned or burried.
The solution: A floating automated (and uninhabitable) island
that uses the rubbish itself in a safe and clean
way to fuel the
processing of the plastic into quality industrial pellets or parts.
The floating island, owned and funded by EcoPositive, working
along with green activist groups, "rents out" services to plastic
companies around the world, at low prices, creating tooth
brush
handles bristels or plastic cups.
The pellets and parts are packaged in safe containers (the
subject
of a different idea to be posted some day soon). EcoPositive
pays
the Ocean Cleanup project to create a containment floating
border that follows the automated floating shipment and in
case
of a problem gathers and contains the unlikely case of a spill.
The island is covered with trees and vegetation watered by fog
nets.
Swedish garbage incineration
https://www.youtube...watch?v=caw-969W-D4
[pashute, Sep 04 2020]
Garbageland
Garbageland
[Voice, Sep 04 2020]
Ocean-Going_20Plast...0Bussard_20Ram-Ship
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Sep 04 2020]
Exposing Austrailias recycling
https://www.youtube...watch?v=lqrlEsPoyJk
[pashute, Sep 04 2020]
Doomwatch
https://en.wikipedi...iki/Doomwatch#Books
Prophetic ... [8th of 7, Sep 06 2020]
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Build a golf course on it and invite The Gump to
play the launch game. |
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Have you thought of introducing Ideonella sakaiensis into the
gut microbiome of the Laysan albatrosses of Midway Atoll? |
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<Thinks about introducing Ideonella sakaiensis into the gut microbiome of the Laysan albatrosses of Midway Atoll./> |
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Can't a better result be achieved just by setting fire to something ? |
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Wasn't there an idea on the hb for a slow-moving automated vessel that collected plastic, dried and shredded it, then burnt it as fuel to power itself ? |
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I posted an idea for an "ironically carbon-neutral
supertanker" a while ago, but I'm not sure that's quite what
you mean |
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//Wasn't there an idea on the hb for a slow-moving automated vessel that collected plastic, dried and shredded it, then burnt it as fuel to power itself ?// |
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Yes.
Yes there was. [link] |
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That otherwise admirable idea was somewhat vitiated by the top
speed of two to five microknots. |
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This limitation arises from the fact that the concentration of the
plastic particles, though high enough to devastate wildlife, is still
much too low for convenient harvesting. |
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Fortunately, nature has provided a mechanism for increasing the
concentration of what is, in effect, the junk food of the oceans,
namely, the food chain itself; it's a fair guess that the highest
concentrations of plastic particles can be found in the digestive
tracts of apex predators. |
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At present, the apex predator dies (whether from surfeit of PET
or any other cause), rots and releases the plastics back at the
bottom of the food chain, to begin another lethal ascent. |
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But now, enter Ideonella sakaiensis, a bacterium accidentally
bred, like a micro-organic Gojira, in the rubbish dumps of
Japan. |
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All we have to do is get it to where the problematic PET is found,
namely, up the cloaca of the biggest seagull we can find, that
lives in the right place - videlicet, the Laysan albatross of Midway
Atoll. |
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You missed Kit Pedler's seminal "Mutant 59: The Plastic Eater". |
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And we thought you were familiar with culture ... well, English culture, which is the only meaningful form. |
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// my familiarity with British television is pretty sparse // |
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"I find your lack of taste ... disturbing." |
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If you are unfamiliar with English TV tropes, memes and themes in general, we will schedule you for additional random, violent beatings. While this may not directly improve your knowledge, it will at least provide superior motivation for you to engage in self-improvement. |
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//evolution will resolve this for you// |
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{Waits for geological time to pass} |
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Ponty Mython.
Flowery Twats. |
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it all comes full circle. |
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// My interest in television ... waned some time in the late 1970’s // |
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Ah yes, the terrible desolate yawning void between the end of the animated series and the start of TNG, when all the re-runs of TOS (Except for Plato's Stepchildren) had been watched at least 87 times each and were starting to lose a tiny bit of their freshness ... |
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