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spurgeonryan said:
Joelcool7 said:

This is nothing to be worried about. Its not like this debris is going to slaughter millions of animals or kill humans. It is just a nuisance and it will be cleared within months from the majority of the coastline that people actually use. Not to mention the coast line is huge and the debris will likely spread out meaning it will have a much smaller impact then any oil spill that I know of has!

It could probably be cleaned up within days of landing. A crew comes out and works two three days on each major beach and woolah its all gone!


You did read that it said 20 million tons right! When a landfill lands on a beach all at once, across the whole state of California or more, it becomes a much bigger problemo.

Yah I realize twenty million tons. But I saw the press release here in Canada as well and the debris is supposed to be spread across the whole Western Coast line. So from A little below California the whole way up to Alaska only 20-million tons, if it is spread out over the whole Western Coast line it shouldn't be a huge disaster for the beaches to get cleaned. Most of the coast isn't inhabited and the debris will just rot or sink or something.

The only way I see it being a huge huge problem is if the debris is concentrated on certain parts of the coast and not spread out! If it is all concentrated then it could be a major problem but if it breaks up and is spread out over the entire western coast line it shouldn't be as big of an issue!



-JC7

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