Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn't Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis
The Ocean Cleanup's 2019 test caught hundreds of marine animals, as marine ecologist Dr. Rebecca Helm warned. Experts say the nonprofit's approach, based on a misunderstanding of the garbage patch, has failed to make a dent and may harm ecosystems. It has pivoted to river interceptors, but critics remain skeptical.
This ecosystem is ecologically important to species that we do care about. We can’t just go disrupting it in the name of conservation and imagine that everything is OK and that you’re doing a good thing.