Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention — no matter how much they go viral. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this? In 2019 a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup conducted a major test of technology designed to remove plastic pollution from the water.It appeared to work, and the nonprofit released photos proclaiming its success.But some scientists noticed something else among the accumulated plastic in the Ocean Cleanup’s publicity photos.