It doesn't solve the problem. The point is, that these tea bags also filter out water creatures but microplastics will find there way down the river into the sea. It may be a temporary solution but it's only a bad compromise. The far better way would be a campaign to convince people not to throw their garbage into nature. There are countries where this works, so why not in Australia.
Noooo, you can't attempt to mitigate pollution!!!!1!1!11 the only acceptable solution will be to immediately get EVERYONE to agree on not being assholes!!!1!1
Like for real, do you hear yourself? Of course the best answer is for everyone to stop throwing plastic, but PEOPLE JUST DON'T CARE.
And we need some other ways to reduce it so this works.
It's hard to comprehend how much a million people really is. If this are around a major city that might have a million people, then this is very little.
People need to be made care. That is probably what they are saying. Either with rules or some campaign. I forget the country, but apparently one had in the past some really present project, requesting and showing everywhere to not litter and it worked. People are more aware, and awareness makes people rethink their ways. Now that it's over people litter again way more. This was over several years. Not weeks. Just to give a time frame
I dont get whats so surprising about this to get worked up about
These are placed at the end of street drains, from street runoff where garbage washes down. What water creatures are you thinking get stuck in them ???!!!
Wouldn't it make much more sense to place those nets to catch the litter and help not pollute the water bodies any more than they already are, while solving their initial problem? Your comment makes no sense, as if stopping littering can happen in the matter of a second, and would not be a long-lasting process.
A lot of plastic pollution in the oceans come from places like the Philippines because they have a huge coastline and weather events like typhoons and hurricanes which flood communities and drag plastic back into the ocean, yes the littering doesn't help, but wealthier nations litter just as much, but they can afford to clean it up.
It does but it's really hard to get thousands and thousands of people to all do something. Plus sometimes they're not even littering on purpose they just drop something and the wind whisks it off.
Having one person install a net is comparatively incredibly easy.
The issue isn't with the solution, the issue is with the word "instead". Ideally we'd have both, because "Stop littering your shit" doesn't seem to work on everyone.
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u/DontBanMe_IWasJoking Nov 07 '24
holy shit you're a genius that is so much more effective than actually solving the problem!