Thailand photo of the day: Waste separation and the plastic problem

From what I understand is that every year 5 million tons (number I had come across) of plastic is dumped in the oceans and then others go fishing it out again. Logical right?!

I understood that there are 5 islands of plastic the size of Texas floating around in the oceans, mainly the Pacific Ocean, where it is concentrated by currents.
The currents are also influenced by these masses and therefore the entire ecosystem.
Then I wonder, what are we doing. And more, who are the ones who dump it? 5000000 TON is not really a bit.

Documentaries from China, which imported old plastic and used poor Chinese to separate, if all goes well, they have stopped. Also in Thailand and more countries.

Thailand now has plastic processing based on the pyrolysis of plastic, so must now have "raw material". A fuel (?) could be extracted in this way. Has yet to prove profitable, has been here in TB by the way. Actually originated because ordinary people did this, see the many YT videos.
PET can be recycled. In the Netherlands we have/had such a factory, but we have to fight hard against new PET bottles, they are actually cheaper. And there you go, the manufacturer uses the new one. Well, even if there is a difference of 1 cent/bottle, that will yield a profit of 10000 euros for the PET user on a million bottles.
Then break it off? There seem to be bacteria, enzymes that break it down. Consequence more CO2.
Or also pyrolysis, but that seems to involve quite a few snags. However, technology is moving forward, so maybe it's doable now.
India, I thought, is now making “bricks” from recycled polyethylene, ok good.

A new problem pops up, clothes. They make an absurd surplus of clothing. Surplus or resend clothing is now dumped in eg Chile in deserted regions. Brand new clothing by the ton. Saw that pack away 3 weeks ago on the internet. Africa would also be a popular place to dump. Strange, not yet in the sea?
At one point we see a lion in an outfit hopping around, just like many nautical animals are equipped with plastic parts or are even filled with plastic.

There is even micro plastic, as the name says very small, which you can get in drinks that you drink every day.
What happens to the small organism in the sea, which provides a large part of our oxygen production? When these are “fed” by micro plastic? Yes, not only the trees take care of it.

Did you know that seagulls forage at glass processing companies? Broken jars with, for example, some peanut butter. They eat it glass and all, so die. However, they are protected.
They are not my favorite birds, but don't wish them a terrible death. That's why I now wash all my empty jars before it goes to the bottle bank. That way you always learn from a documentary.

That's how I ended up in a documentary that investigated how far nautical life influences their movements, ocean currents in particular. At first I thought, yes, but a little later, yes, there is a kernel of truth in that.
And the currents are just as important as the air you inhale.
It belongs to the earth ecosystem.

Anyway, let's move on and waste our habitat. We are now launching rockets into space one after the other, to give a millionaire a glimpse into space.
Well, why would you think about CO2 emissions? If the Netherlands does not do the same, they will fill the country with energy-guzzling data centers, 184 in total already. Farmers gone, data center replaced.
Energy/environmental agreement, of course, not achieved.
Perhaps they should better place the data centers in the Sahara, plenty of space and enough sun for solar power.

SHELL has a process for making fuel from CO2, of which there is plenty. H2 was and still is the problem, as there is now a squabble over who owns H2 producing
factories (windmills and related installations) government or SHELL, water or the drip?
For now, SHELL has left, yes, head office, but don't forget that they sell everything in the Netherlands, their entire installations. Rumor had it that they were actually thinking about it back in 2000.