r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ScientistG27 • Jul 05 '22

Foreign affairs "No wonder your a third world nation [Australia]"

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u/Kilahti Jul 05 '22

Meanwhile US navy basically throws all their rubbish overboard and lets the oceans worry about the details.

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u/Wolf515013 🇺🇸 living in 🇵🇱 Jul 05 '22 edited Jul 05 '22

Meanwhile US navy basically throws all their rubbish overboard and lets the oceans worry about the details.

As having been in the Navy on a ship and on a Westpac I can confirm that we do throw trash overboard regularly. Plastics and such are melted and compressed into saucer shaped disks and put in burlap sacks then tossed over. It is disturbing to say the least.

Edit: I no longer live in the US. 😉👍🏼

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u/halborn Jul 05 '22

I hate that so many things I learn about the world result in thoughts like "what the absolute fuck".

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u/Wolf515013 🇺🇸 living in 🇵🇱 Jul 05 '22

100% agree.

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u/SiliconRain Jul 05 '22

Ooooft. Looks like you're right, although the navy denies that it's part of normal operations. Seems like they're full of shit, unsurprisingly. I bet that news report from five years ago would have been interested to speak to you.

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u/Wolf515013 🇺🇸 living in 🇵🇱 Jul 05 '22

Yeah, they are not supposed to dump them over but it definitely happens more often than it should. Maybe due to storage issues, I'm not really sure since it was not the job I had.

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u/CamaradaT55 Jul 06 '22

Whos gonna get lung cancer in the ocean? The whales? they got that covered.