PLASTIC BAGS and our WATER WORLD

Give me a break !!
Where did you get this info?
Have you ever been to Asia?

We need to continue to research & implement technologys such as these,...and export them around the world.
http://www.plastic2oil.com/site/home

...NOT continue to explore & develop new coal resources,...etc

Wake up America
The Chinese also have some VERY smart kids that could, maybe are, working on this problem?

A lot of folks want to blame Asian countries for this plastic pollution, and yes they are big contributors.

But I don't think this accounts for what we can find right here in our own Caribbean environment,....just google images of caribbean plastic trash,..or have a look here,..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5114157/Idyllic-Caribbean-island-ruined-rubbish.html

I just want us all to own up to whatever responsibility we may have individually, and help in any small way we can to try and solve the problem....

I don't want our beaches to look like this in the future.
I don't want plastic outnumbering the fish in the sea.

Capt J,
It can be something very simple,...like picking up your groceries in those plastic bags the food stores provide,...100's of thousands,...millions in fact.

Many stores are starting to eliminate them, and asking that you bring your own bag to carry your foodstuffs home. I bought 3 Trader Joe bags about 7 years ago, and I am AMAZED that they are still serviceable. Wonder how many plastic bags I have saved from the landfills or the water.

I really wish we would invest in providing the technology to return these plastics to oil,..or something else.

At one point back in late nineties, I made a month long trip to Cuba on a friend's boat. While there I looked at what potential business opportunities might exist there (since our President at the time was suggesting reopening trade with Cuba). I identified an energy sector that was in great need of help, and I though back about the clean burning efforts being made to help with our ENORMOUS surplus of old used tires,....why not relatively small city size energy plants that could burn our old tires? These small plants might even be containerized sized.
Perhaps no need to construct an elaborate power distribution system to get started,..power up each small town around the island,...barge the tires in from FL, etc. (and it would have put a halt in the construction of that Chernobyl type plant they were building down there).

Possible Solution !?

https://newatlas.com/energy/sgh2-cheap-green-hydrogen-california/

...just an excerpt....
How it works
The process, developed by SGH2's parent company Solena, uses high-temperature plasma torches putting out temperatures between 3,500 and 4,000 °C (6,332 to 7,232 °F). This ionic heat, with oxygen-enriched gas fed in, catalyzes a "complete molecular dissociation of all hydrocarbons" in whatever fuel you've fed in, and as it rises and begins to cool, it forms "a very high quality, hydrogen-rich bio-syngas free of tar, soot and heavy metals."

The process accepts a wide variety of waste sources, including paper, old tires, textiles, and notably plastics, which it can handle very efficiently without toxic by-products. The bio-syngas exits the top of a plenum chamber, and is sent to a cooling chamber, followed by a pair of acid scrubbers to remove particulate matter.