They are doing similar tryouts in Big Rivers now too. But that's a lot harder than cleaning what's already stagnant.

The sheer force of the water and waste is difficult to hold in place with nets. But they're definitely working on it.

I trust programs like this and admire the work. It's a good thing for life in general to get rid of that shit. It's just abysmal that companies still use so much plastic for everything.

Climate is a thing where no matter how big your solution is, it's only part of a larger solution-cluster.

We need it all, and then the rest of it, too.

[...] the next you see whole rivers covered in plastic waste flowing out into the ocean from certain countries.

Which is why they're working on exactly that

Except they're not calling it the solution, just a remedy to a literally growing problem. Even if people stopped polluting the ocean in an instant, you'd still have to clean up the patch. Now, they're taking the initiative to go clean it up as best they can, which is a heck of a lot more than the average person lemme tell ya that much.

The majority of the great Pacific garbage patch material - over 75% of it - comes from fishing and aquaculture activities. I'm sure some of it is accidents or storm related, but I also have a strong suspicion that a good percentage of it is from China's ghost fishing fleets - the ones they deny exist, that over-fish and poach other countries' waters, and that cut loose their nets and pretend innocence it approached.

Even if all pollution stopped today we still have to clean up the patch.

Who said it was a solution?

It's important to celebrate the wins that we have in order to build some tailwind behind the general effort.

We should still recognize how far we have to go, of course, but celebration matters.

They are working on exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wdKoIjdgSE

Yeah. All product packaging should be paper based.

Where do they say anything like that? I've been following them very closely for years and they've always been super transparent that there isn't one solution. They also do a lot of work to prevent trash from getting to the ocean in the first place.

your reply is classic

miss the forest for the trees

There are similar groups with near identical solutions for tackling "problem" River that are some of the worst offenders of plastic pollution.

Ultimately there is still a problem in the ocean, and to some extent, it is inevitable until we have a realistic solution for plastics.

There are groups working to cleanup river plastic before it becomes ocean plastic.

There will always be the lost who care not for fellow man. I can only hope those that do care, outnumber those who don't.

Be kind to one another

It's not really a solution as it will be a perpetual requirement until we just stop putting out so much plastics

The Atlantic

I think their idea is to put it into new plastic products.

Outside the environment.

Claims 5, but says 10, by 2034...

It's like the second line of the article