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Social Service Trade Off Link Ocean clean-up is a massive undertaking that could bankrupt nations
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- Answer To: Project will pay for itself
- Ban Plastic Bags Counterplan
- Solvency- Banning plastic bags reduces use
- Solvency: stops plastic at the source
- [___] Nearly 80% of ocean plastics starts from a land based source.
- Solvency: Reducing use of plastic
Social Service Trade Off Link Ocean clean-up is a massive undertaking that could bankrupt nations.Kazo, President at Wildlife Research Team, 2013 (Donna, President/Director/co-founder at Wildlife Research Team, Inc, http://wildliferesearchteam.wordpress.com/tag/boyan-slat/) In closing, I quite liked this comment from “Harry,” who watches over a particular beach in Maine, and discusses his findings in his blog, on Slat’s plan: “This idea that if we’ve messed something up, there’s science/tech out there that can fix it. That keeps us from having to make the hard choices about our lifestyle. In this case, there isn’t. It is not possible to clean the oceans up of their debris. Not without breaking the bank of every nation on earth and scooping out and killing all the life in its first 100 feet of depth. That’s what we have done to our planet in just a couple generations. That’s plastic’s legacy. We cannot actively go out and clean it up in any meaningful way. What we can do is to change consumption behavior, change materials, improve waste management; do the things that stop persistent plastic from getting in the ocean in the first place.”¶ It starts with me, and with you. [___] Costs of a cleanup project will be huge. Location and size of the problem will only force costs higher. Layton, staff writer for Discovery Communications, 2010 (Julia, “Could we clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?” http://science.howstuffworks.com /environmental/green-science/clean-up-garbage-patch.html, January 7, 2010) An even weightier task if that Jacuzzi tub were out in the middle of the ocean where it took a week to even reach it in the first place. The garbage patch is really out there - that's why it remained a secret so long. Getting to it is a hike. It's not close to any port or any source of supplies. That makes a massive cleanup effort an extraordinarily time-consuming, fuel-consuming, resource-consuming undertaking. In other words, it would be prohibitively expensive. Add in the $7-million-per-pyrolysis setup involved in Project Kaisei's approach, and you've got yourself a bankruptcy in the making. Answer To: Project will pay for itself[___] Ocean cleanup project can’t pay for itself- the plastics recovered have little value on recycling market and transportation costs are huge.Wilson, Associate Director at The 5 Gyres Institute, 2013 (Stiv,”The Fallacy of Cleaning the Gyres of Plastic With a Floating "Ocean Cleanup Array" , Inhabitat, July 17, http://inhabitat.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-plastic-with-a-floating-ocean-cleanup-array/)
Answer To: Project will pay for itself[___] Ocean plastic recycling is not viable. The supply of plastics will always be too great to make the process cost effective.Wilson, Associate Director at The 5 Gyres Institute, 2013 (Stiv,”The Fallacy of Cleaning the Gyres of Plastic With a Floating "Ocean Cleanup Array" , Inhabitat, July 17, http://inhabitat.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-plastic-with-a-floating-ocean-cleanup-array/)
The Counter plan would solve. Plastic ban bags significantly reduce the amount of plastic that flow into the ocean.Surfrider Foundation & UCLA School of Law’s Environmental Law Clinic, 2013 (“Federal Actions to Address Plastic Marine Pollution, http://law.ucla.edu/~/media/Files/UCLA/Law/Pages/Publications/CEN_EMM_PUB%20Surfrider%20UCLA%20-%20Plastics%20Solutions.ashx) Countries on nearly every continent have enacted legislation to reduce the use of on single-use non-biodegradable plastic bags that clutter sidewalks, clog storm drains, and eventually find their way into the oceans.38 Notably, the European Commission adopted regulations in November 2013 that would require member states to either start charging for single-use plastic bags or ban them altogether. More than 70 percent of commenters on the proposed regulations agreed that a ban was needed.39 County and municipal governments throughout the United States have also begun to adopt bans or imposed fees on single-use non-biodegradable plastic bags in response to plastic bag litter that clutters sidewalks, clogs storm drains, and eventually finds its way into the ocean. Local bag bans and fees have been widely successful in reducing the environmental harms and economic costs associated with plastic bag waste and litter. Many states legislatures also have considered plastic bag bans or fees, including Oregon, California, Maryland, and Virginia, but no state has yet enacted a ban or fee into law. Solvency- Banning plastic bags reduces use[___] Bag bans have been historically successful. Surfrider Foundation & UCLA School of Law’s Environmental Law Clinic, 2013 (“Federal Actions to Address Plastic Marine Pollution, http://law.ucla.edu/~/media/Files/UCLA/Law/Pages/Publications/CEN_EMM_PUB%20Surfrider%20UCLA%20-%20Plastics%20Solutions.ashx) Successful bag ban ordinances in cities and counties around the country demonstrate that a ban on single-use plastic bags or food containers can significantly reduce plastic litter without harmful economic impacts on consumers, small businesses, or large retailers. In order to prevent the ban from being overbroad, the ban could exempt plastic items with certain necessary uses (e.g., protecting unwrapped prepared foods; preventing contamination of other goods placed together in the same bag; or enclosing prescription drugs from pharmacies).8 Solvency: stops plastic at the source[___] Most ocean trash originates on land.Cho, staff blogger for the Earth Institute, 2011 (Renee, “Our Oceans: A Plastic Soup”, Earth Institute, 1-26, http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/26/our-oceans-a-plastic-soup/) Some plastic and marine debris comes from fishing gear, offshore oil and gas platforms, and ships. But 80 percent of it comes from the land—litter that gets stuck in storm drains and is washed into rivers and out to sea, the legal and illegal dumping of garbage and appliances, and plastic resin pellets inadvertently spilled and unloaded by plastic manufacturers. Trash Travels, Ocean Conservancy’s 2010 report, states that 60 percent of all marine debris in 2009 consisted of “disposable” items, with the most common being cigarettes, plastic bags, food containers, bottle caps and plastic bottles. And no matter where the litter originates, once it reaches the ocean, it becomes a planetary problem as garbage travels thousands of miles carried by the gyres. [___] Nearly 80% of ocean plastics starts from a land based source.Matthews, consultant, eco-entrepreneur, green investor, 2014 (Richard, “Plastic Waste in Our Oceans: Problems and Solutions”, April 10, http://globalwarmingisreal.com/2014/04/10/ocean-garbage-problems-solutions/) It is crudely estimated that 80 percent of the garbage comes from land-based sources and 20 percent is from ships. According to a 2011 EPA report titled, Marine Debris in the North Pacific: “The primary source of marine debris is the improper waste disposal or management of trash and manufacturing products, including plastics (e.g., littering, illegal dumping) … Debris is generated on land at marinas, ports, rivers, harbors, docks, and storm drains. Debris is generated at sea from fishing vessels, stationary platforms and cargo ships.” Much of the land-based sources of ocean waste originates from the great rivers from around the world. Solvency: Reducing use of plastic[___] Even Ocean Cleanup proponents conclude that efforts to reduce input of plastics into the oceans are necessary.Slat et al, founder and lead designer The Ocean Cleanup Project, 2014 (Boyan, “A Feasibility Study”, http://www.theoceancleanup.com/fileadmin/media-archive/theoceancleanup/press/downloads/TOC_Feasibility_study_lowres.pdf) Based on this collected evidence, it is concluded that The Ocean Cleanup Array is likely a feasible and viable method for large-scale, passive and efficient removal of floating plastic from the North Pacific Garbage Patch. However, for this project to be successful in reducing the amount of plastics in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, it is essential for the influx of new plastic pollution into the oceans to be radically reduced. [___] Reduction in use of plastic necessary to lower the amount of plastic in the oceans, must break the recycling cycle. Wilson, Associate Director at The 5 Gyres Institute, 2013 (Stiv,”The Fallacy of Cleaning the Gyres of Plastic With a Floating "Ocean Cleanup Array" , Inhabitat, July 17, http://inhabitat.com/the-fallacy-of-cleaning-the-gyres-of-plastic-with-a-floating-ocean-cleanup-array/) But even when plastics do get recycled, in the vast majority of cases, recycling only kicks the can down the road one generation by creating a product that can’t or won’t (because of economic constraints) be recycled again. In short, the vast majority of the recycling industry isn’t doing anything to solve marine plastic pollution, and for the most part, recycling is just creating a secondary market for waste. Even if the economics of Slat’s Ocean Cleanup Array didn’t further impede its viability, more plastic would still be entering the ocean than his device would pull out. 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