The Dream of Scooping Plastic From the Ocean Is Still Alive—and Problematic https://gizmodo.com/the-dream-of-scooping-plastic-from-the-ocean-is-still-a-1847890573 "They spent I don’t know how many tens of millions of dollars to invent fishing." “Cleaning the Garbage Patches is like trying to heal a wound by cleaning blood off the floor,” said Helm. “Plastic is haemorrhaging from land, from fishing gear disposal, container spills, these are the issues we need to fight. Otherwise, we’ll be cleaning forever, while the world keeps bleeding out.”