Hacker News with Generative AI: Ocean Pollution

What happens when shipping containers get lost at sea and burst? (apnews.com)
More than 20,000 shipping containers have tumbled overboard in the last decade and a half. Their varied contents have washed onto shorelines, poisoned fisheries and animal habitats, and added to swirling ocean trash vortexes. Most containers eventually sink to the sea floor and are never retrieved.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Can Be Cleaned for $7.5B (theoceancleanup.com)
The Ocean Cleanup today declared the eradication of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) achievable within a decade and an ambition to make the cleanup happen faster and more cost-effectively.