The Longest Swim
I’ve been regularly following Ben (Benoit) Lecomte‘s incredible 190 day-long swim through plastic-filled Pacific Ocean. Incredible heroic human achievement, priceless scientific research on consequences of Fukushima radioactive polution and an exploration of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Thanks to the Longest Swim team, we have a clear picture of the devastating impact on nature our so called “progress” has brought.
Here is Ben’s gruesome summary of his findings.
A Plastic Ocean
Just watched “A Plastic Ocean” documentary by Craig Leeson on Netflix.
It shows a horror of plastic that contaminates literally all ocean, penetrating all life forms, killing marine animals and birds ending up on our plates poisoning us with toxins.
But what is estonishing is that long before we learnt how to separate and recycle, we have been burning waste, generating electricity.
Today’s technologies allow to use plasma to transform all waste into simple organics, breaking all toxins into simple elements. These modern burning facilities already exist in Norway and Germany and the company shown in the documentary producing scalable waste-to-energy solutions is called PyroGenesis Canada.
Naturally, I’ve checked out the company, their story and their financial documents. Poor lads are about to get bankrupt. They simply don’t have enough orders to stay afloat. Contrary to plastic…