But what about the plastic pollution as a result of this (from the GPS tracker that will now become permanent plastic garbage).
I don’t mean to say the pollution isn’t worth the fox study. But why isn’t anyone asking if it is?
Who determines, or at which point do we say, yes this study is worth creating this amount of pollution?
You need a little perspective about the true extent of the problem. A GPS tracker probably weights 4 ounces. For comparison, the Yangtze river alone dumps 1.5 million metric tons of plastic per year into the Yellow Sea.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...
https://earthsky.org/earth/great-pacific-garbage-patch-bigge...
You'd probably have to do millions of there experiments to even show up on the radar