While we vacuum the seas, we may as well clean them of debris…
Posted 20 Oct 2015 / 0
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment “Norway to start trawling for trash”
I guess this is a cool initiative, one that capitalizes on a philosophy of as long as you are out there sweeping the seas for fish, you might as well dispose properly of all the garbage that you “catch”. But I can’t help but see the irony: this kind of initiative has the potential to make a dent in our oceanic trash problem only because we so thoroughly extract marine life through our fishing activities.
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