4 ways to tackle ocean trash besides Ocean Cleanup’s broken system

A controversial plan to capture trash in the Pacific isn’t panning out as planned

discarded fishing gear

BEACHCOMBER BOOTY  Picking up trash that washes ashore prevents it from floating back out at high tide. This pile of discarded fishing gear and other debris was collected along remote Alaskan shorelines.

NOAA’s National Ocean Service/Flickr

Cleaning up ocean pollution is no simple task, as an effort to fish plastic out of the Pacific Ocean is revealing.