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A sense of scale of the problem. [1]

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Date: 2023-05-05

Imagine a fully laden cargo ship, why not take the largest “The Evergreen”, remember the one that blocked the Suez Canal completely.

Now that ship weighed a merely 220, 940 long tons and measures 1,300 ft by 193ft and 108ft high.

Now take a fleet of 2,220 [approx 490 million long tons] fully laden Evergreens and dump them on Manhattan [sorry New Yorkers but Manhattan it is conveniently by the sea.]

Repeat every year based upon recyclability. I’m being fair now.

Only about 10% of plastic is recycled each year, alright, remove 222 Evergreens from Central Park.

I wonder if this would upset Wall Street?

[1 long ton ≈ 1 metric ton, I hate non SI units]

Why the diary?

I am fed up with walking along the beach because it usually ends up with us collecting plastic waste and never even making a dent in the total washed up.

Just a thought.

[Most of the time ships float, same goes for most plastics]

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