The Ocean Cleanup removed a record 25 million kilos of plastic in 2025 (and they’re just getting started) | The Optimist Daily
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With 25 million kilos of plastic removed in 2025 alone, The Ocean Cleanup is scaling up efforts to tackle plastic pollution from rivers to open ocean.
  • macniel@feddit.org
    78·
    12 days ago

    That headline makes me unreasonable angry.

    25 Million Kilos of Plastic. So 25 Billion pieces of Plastic? Kilo isn’t a unit (kph infuriates me just as well)! But we don’t stop here. They could just as well say 25 thousand tonnes, or 25 kilo tonnes of plastic

    sorry for that micro rant.

    Its awesome that they got so much plastic trash out of the oceans.

      • tpyo@lemmy.world
        5·
        11 days ago

        Yeah, I’m a stupid american but I immediately parsed that without even having to think about it. That dude’s wildin over nothing

      • altphoto@lemmy.today
        37·
        12 days ago

        Or kilobyte, or kilometer, or kilosecond.

        One time I asked for a kilo and the guy says what?

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          12 days ago

          Or kilobyte, or kilometer, or kilosecond

          I’ve never heard kilo used as an abbreviation for these. Kilobyte is KB, kilometer is klick, and kilosecond in a silly unit that almost no one uses due to the existence of minutes and hours.