I’m not much of a green, but even I can see how this enormous floating plastic dump is problematic. I don’t see why they say we can’t do anything about it, though. 3.5 million tons of plastic has an enormous market value, and the nature of the currents are such that more feedstock comes in every day. It must be worth someone’s time to set up a retrieval and recycling operation.

(H/T You Guessed It)