Comments on: What did the Boyan Slat and the Ocean Cleanup do last summer? https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/ All the news on the Earth's largest environment. Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://csrtech.com By: margarida https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/#comment-21656 Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:11:02 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=57513#comment-21656 It’s of course good that you alert us for what you think someone is doing badly, it’s a very serious stuff, after all, but, wouldn’t it be nice too, trying not to think so sanctimoniously about what others are doing ? are they not trying to revert the shit we’ve being doing for decades ?
Why can’t your way and Boyan’s way be added ?
Why must there only be one right way to do things ?

]]> By: Paul Sharp https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/#comment-21086 Sat, 25 Feb 2017 06:36:34 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=57513#comment-21086 Yup. Though Dr Martini, I’m not sure I’d suggest Ocean Conservancy as a group to support. Sadly their funding relationship with Coca-Cola seems to have silenced their voice in criticising Cokes substantial plastic pollution contribution and incessant lobbying against bottle bills. Ocean Conservancy also seems to be supporting Coke and Dow Packagings effort to frame “5 Asian countries” as the main culprit for plastic pollution. The real question should be which 5 corporations produce most of the worlds plastic pollution.

]]> By: Project Manaia https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/#comment-21060 Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:34:33 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=57513#comment-21060 Sailed through atlantic and pacific gyre by now and from the top you cant really tell its there. Lots of small pieces most of them just below the surface… nothing visible which makes it easy to ignore the problem.
Even bigger problem is in the deep sea, where the majority of the plastic ends up.
Most efficient way everyone can help, avaidplastic whenever possible and clean up on beaches and make sure it gets to a recycling facility! We already collected a good ton this year in lonely islands of Myanmar and still doing more cleanips every week!

]]> By: Dr. Martini https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/#comment-20529 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 05:05:30 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=57513#comment-20529 In reply to kootzie.

It’s not an island, but more like a diffuse area of big and small pieces of plastic. That’s not counting all the plastic that sinks.

]]> By: Dr. Martini https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/#comment-20528 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 05:04:12 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=57513#comment-20528 In reply to kootzie.

Ha! I think that’s the Dutch politicians that gave him the money. The link is in the caption above.

Here’s the link to where they say they retrieved it
https://www.theoceancleanup.com/updates/show/item/an-update-from-the-north-sea/

]]> By: kootzie https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/#comment-20518 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 20:05:39 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=57513#comment-20518 I’ve heard conflicting stories about the Pacific Garbage Gyre …

A. There is a big concentrated patch of floating plastic objects – practically an island

B. There is a big diffuse area of small suspended plastic particles which one might sail through without recognizing it

C. some combination

]]> By: kootzie https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/#comment-20517 Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:58:00 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=57513#comment-20517 Hello,

Thanks for the update on the Boyan Slat thing.
Do you have any links about the failure of the prototype ?
I searched around and everything I found says everythings OK, prototype still there.

What’s the deal on the 2X 0.5M EUR ?
Are you saying that Mummy and Daddy (my supposition) pocketed that much cashola ?

]]> By: L. A. Julian https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/#comment-20010 Sun, 08 Jan 2017 15:35:13 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=57513#comment-20010 So frustrating dealing w Dunning-Kreuger types like this, who think it’s ‘possible! if you only dare to dream!’ bc they have no idea of what even the barest parameters of the problems are, whatever the field.

It’s worst of all when they’re your boss and you can’t convince them until you run the (foregone) experiment, sometimes three and four times, because they’re sure you must have done it wrong, because their idea was so ‘brilliant’ – and now you’re behind schedule and over budget, because of all the time and resources you had to waste showing them that it really, really wasn’t…

]]> By: Dr. Martini https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/#comment-19974 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 20:17:34 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=57513#comment-19974 In reply to Jim Wharton.

AGREED!

]]> By: Jim Wharton https://deepseanews.com/2017/01/what-did-the-boyan-slat-and-the-ocean-cleanup-do-last-summer/#comment-19972 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:29:15 +0000 https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=57513#comment-19972 Even better, support groups like Upstream (http://upstreampolicy.org) and others working on source reductions and take steps to reduce your personal use of single-use plastics. No matter what the technology, we’re never going to be able to create a output pipe as big as our current input pipe (~4.8-12.7 million metric tons according to Jambeck, 2015).

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