Do you think United States would benefit from Government Military Enviromental Humanitarianism?

PO3 Aaron Hassay — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:38:51 -0400

Thoughts of commandeering repurposing old Navy Technology and Ships Will Power and getting out there in the Pacific Garbage patch and making a statement of United States Exeptionalism. We would only benefit in the best of ways. Whole industries could be spawned from putting that plastic in extrusion form machines creating all sort of products and cleaning at the same time!! What are some others?

Response by SSG Trevor S. made Sep 5 at 2019 3:53 PM

SSG Trevor S. — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:53:00 -0400

Are you proposing to privatize obsolete military equipment for relatively low cost capital investment of private environmental interests to use in clean up and aide operations? Or, do you want the government to expand by keeping this equipment to run it's own clean up and aide operations?
I could support the privatized venture idea.

Response by SGT Rob L made Sep 5 at 2019 7:16 PM

SGT Rob L — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:16:13 -0400

Or stick to war fighting

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 5 at 2019 10:01 PM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 22:01:51 -0400

GPGP = Big Target

https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

great-pacific-garbage-patch

Response by Cpl Jeff N. made Sep 6 at 2019 5:58 AM

Cpl Jeff N. — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 05:58:33 -0400

If there is a business model that can make money at this sort of venture and it is private then I am all for it. Navy ships are not cheap to operate and people cannot work for free forever. Even if you can get the ship(s) free, the maintenance costs could be very high.

If you propose we are going to make governments accountable then we should look at where the plastics/garbage in the oceans is coming from. It isn't the US. Below is a story that talks about the ten rivers in the world the vast majority comes from. Perhaps building capture centers at the mouths of these rivers would be time and resources well spent as well.

Also, plastic has many forms. In addition to collecting it, it must be sorted, cleaned and them processed.

https://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-from-just-10-rivers/a-41581484

Almost all plastic in the ocean comes from just 10 rivers | DW | 30.11.2017

Most of the plastic in our oceans doesn't get dumped there directly, rivers carry it to the sea. As it turns out, a very small number of them do most of the damage.