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   Alan,   
       
   AI> >> Ooh, there's a giant island of plastic in the ocean!   
       
   AI> > Is there?   
       
   AI> > Where are the photos?   
       
   AI> This story is from 2019.   
       
   AI> https://chiletoday.cl/floating-garbage-patches-grow-in-the-pacific-ocean/   
       
   Pls do not change the subject ... the mention was "a giant island of plastic   
   in the ocean" ... but you are now mentioning "garbage patches".   
       
   So show me some photos of a "giant island of plastic" ... No photo? No NASA   
   imagery? Sorry Alan, didn't happen ... no island.   
       
   And I have a pretty good idea of what I'm talking about after a lifetime of   
   environmental protecion (OK, OK ... 51 years now) working for UNEP (UN   
   Environmental Programme), the European Environmental Bureau, Greenpeace, the   
   International Water Tribunal and others ...   
       
   I am aware of large trash heaps for example at Bohuslan on the Swedish coast   
   where I helped remove a roughly 3 meter layer of compacted plastics of all   
   kinds of sources ... There are photos of that trash heap ... but there is no   
   "giant island of plastic garbage" in the ocean. That "island" has become an   
   urban legend, told over and over again to such an extent it is even mentioned   
   in scientific publications but without proof.   
       
   Let me share with you another story ... with the Dublin Bay Environment Group   
   (Ireland) we had annual campaigns of cleaning the beaches there by picking up   
   used condoms and plastic backs of women's sanitary pads. The church was very   
   powerful and the use of condoms was frowned upon, so after use they were   
   flushed through the toilet in order to leave no trace. We collected all that   
   in a hazaqrd-free way and it was recycled into benches which were placed   
   throughout town ... I never sat on a plastic Irish bench anymore.   
       
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