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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Naw the army was dumping all kinds of stuff after WWII. They had built up so much material that this would be a unknown rubber stamp action without that film.

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sorta like the artifical coral reefs the US made out of WWII tanks

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We didn't stop there. On the civilian side we decided to get rid of old tires doing the same thing.

https://www.greenmatters.com/pn/nonprofit-dumps-2-million-tires-into-the-ocean-to-create-artificial-reefs-heres-what-happened-to-the-ecosystem

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