Fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with the majority of the rest composed of other fishing industry gear.
2y 10mon ago by lemmy.ml/u/inasaba in zerowaste@lemmy.ml from www.nationalgeographic.com
"Fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash [within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch], with the majority of the rest composed of other fishing industry gear, including ropes, oyster spacers, eel traps, crates, and baskets."
If you still eat seafood, please consider cutting it out completely.
Bring back hemp.
The description hemp receives in Moby Dick has me convinced it's the superior product anyway. I'm aware a 19th century novel is not the most updated nor the most accurate source of information, but frankly I don't care. It's obviously better than keeping with plastic.
Fishing should be banned worldwide
Also lots of pet food contains seafood so it isn’t just our own diets
Deregulate for capitalism!