We don’t deserve this planet
I’d say the results listed on this spreadsheet are unbelievable, but sadly they are all too believable. In one day 187,454 people, around the world, collected of off of ocean and lake shorelines, sorted it into classifications and relayed that data to .
Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup is the world’s largest volunteer event of its kind. Thousands of volunteers participate from all over the globe, clearing tons of trash from oceans and waterways, and recording every piece of trash collected. Last year, 378,000 volunteers participated from 76 countries and 45 states. Worldwide, volunteers removed an average of 16 pounds of trash, per person.
Thank you again for all of your dedication and care for the ocean. Ocean Conservancy is looking forward to our next on September 20, 2008
The health of the planet would be so much better off without humans. Consider the a.k.a. the where there are ~3,340,000 pieces/km² of flotsam (mostly plastics) with a mean mass of 5.1kg/km² . Over the size of the gyre that amounts to ~100 million tons of flotsam. We really are the .
