A Dutch company claims to have found the solution to cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a trash vortex that spans from the West Coast of North America to Japan. Not-for-profit The Ocean Cleanup has developed a GPS tracker that emulates how plastic moves in the ocean and a drone with artificial intelligence-powered cameras that can be used to detect pollution hotspots.
People have gone out and are using netting to scoop it up and put it on boats." "What it will take is a consolidated effort by governments." The question that remains: Who will take responsibility for a largely unseen plastic mass in international waters, over which no nation has jurisdiction? In November, world leaders will meet in South Korea for the final round of talks to decide on a global plastics treaty.