On: Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis

[hencq]

Spot on. Another thing these experts fail to mention is that a lot of the data on the Pacific Garbage patch actually comes from the Ocean Cleanup, since, you know, they actually went out there to look.

[ortusdux → hencq]

There is the Marine Debris program at NOAA as well as satellite based tracking methods:

https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/discover-marine-debris/garbage...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9449485