Clean up efforts won’t solve the plastic pollution crisis in the world’s seas
by Isabella Backman (Mongabay https://news.mongabay.com/) • A model simulating a device touted to clear plastic from the “Great Pacific garbage patch” shows that it would collect much less than 1 percent of the ocean’s plastic pollution by 2150.• The study was the first to quantify the device’s ability to remove marine debris.• A more comprehensive…
