The Ocean Cleanup, Part 2: Technical review of the feasibility study

INTRODUCTION This is the second of a two-part post. In the first installment, Kim presented alternatives to this project. This installment is a collaboration between…

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Guest post: Playing Detective in the Great Blue Sea

You may have heard me say it once, and I’ll say it again: the oceans are a toilet bowl for our waste. Throughout history, our solution to pollution has oftentimes been “dilution”. As a consequence, chemical pollution is now ubiquitous in our oceans as a result of industrialization, waste-management strategies (and/or lack thereof), natural disasters, etc….

As such, it becomes my job to try and solve this mystery and basically play detective on the open sea. What puzzle am I trying to unravel? Well, I’ll warn you, it’s a trashy one…

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No, but in all seriousness…

There have been a number of posts at Deep Sea News lately that have attracted intense commentary and a lot of back-channel communication, some of…

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