Longest Floating Structure In History Sets Out To Clean The Ocean In 2016

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9. Unfortunately this is a cosmetic solution.

I was listening to one of the world's leading experts on the plastic in the ocean. He recounted how his team was in the middle of the Pacific and were catching fish. The first one he opened was small but it's stomach was filled with tiny plastic particles.

He explained that wave action quickly pulverizes plastic into these tiny particles which is why collection doesn't work and is rather dangerous because it creates false confidence that something is being done.

He says the the only solution is to prevent plastics from entering the ocean. Preventing plastics from finding their way into the ocean is absolutely critical.