{"id":31834,"date":"2014-04-08T22:45:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/2014\/04\/08\/whose-job-is-it-to-clear-up-all-the-rubbish-floating-in-the-oceans\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T22:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T21:36:53","slug":"whose-job-is-it-to-clear-up-all-the-rubbish-floating-in-the-oceans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oneearth-oneocean.com\/en\/nonresearch-en\/2014\/whose-job-is-it-to-clear-up-all-the-rubbish-floating-in-the-oceans\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose job is it to clear up all the rubbish floating in the oceans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/whose-job-is-it-to-clear-up-all-the-rubbish-floating-in-the-oceans-25082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/theconversation.com\/whose-job-is-it-to-clear-up-all-the-rubbish-floating-in-the-oceans-25082<\/a>\n\n7 April 2014\nWhose job is it to clear up all the rubbish floating in the oceans?\n\nBy Alistair McIlgorm, University of Wollongong\n\nI was in the middle of giving a talk on the marine debris problem at a\nnotable Californian marine research institute, when I drank the last of\nmy water bottle, threw it onto the hall floor from the podium, and kept\ntalking.\n\nThere it sat, to the surprise of several members of the audience. One\nwell-meaning citizen then picked it up and returned it to the lectern.\n\n?Why did you do that?? I asked. ?It just seemed wrong to leave it\nthere,? he replied. Individuals know that something is wrong when the\noceans are filled with debris. It is time for governments to act on that\nknowledge.\n\nBut sea debris comes from both land and sea sources and it?s hard to\npoint to its exact origin and hence to get a polluter to take\nresponsibility for cleaning it up.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/theconversation.com\/whose-job-is-it-to-clear-up-all-the-rubbish-floating-in-the-oceans-25082 7 April 2014 Whose job is it to clear up all the rubbish floating in the oceans? By Alistair McIlgorm, University of Wollongong I was in the middle of giving a talk on the marine debris problem at a notable Californian marine research institute, when I drank the last of my water bottle, threw it onto the hall floor from the podium, and kept talking. There it sat, to the surprise of several members of the audience. One well-meaning citizen then picked it up and returned it to the lectern. ?Why did you do that?? I asked. ?It just seemed wrong to leave it there,? he replied. Individuals know that something is wrong when the oceans are filled with debris. It is time for governments to act on that knowledge. But sea debris comes from both land and sea sources and it?s hard to point to its exact origin and hence to get a polluter to take responsibility for cleaning it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3504,3488],"tags":[1309],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whose job is it to clear up all the rubbish floating in the oceans? - One Earth - One Ocean e. 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