Get the plastic out of the waters.With a huge fishingboat/plant

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It's a great idea and it's already developed and under testing. https://www.theoceancleanup.com/ 

I've worked on this problem for some time and it’s not easy.

The biggest difficulty is to design a system of collection throughout the ocean which can differentiate between plastic scrap and organic material including fish.

If this problem isn't solved then such an activity will arguably do more harm than good with the disruption of the ecosystem.

Building a mobile collection system to extract plastic from the ocean is possible and unlike the 'Oceancleanup' boom method it must track and follow the accumulations of plastic which are constantly on the move around the various gires.

Once such a separation method is developed (I’ve got a strong hypothesis) then it’s necessary to duplicate this activity not just by many but by thousands of collection ships to make any sort of difference to this problem. It’s established fact that the ocean contains trillions of pieces of plastic ranging from large tangled balls more than one meter across down to microscopic balls only couple of microns across. The density of this plastic in the oceans waters can be measured from Parts per Billion (ppb) down to Parts per thousand (ppt) at the most concentrated. Consequently, any method must traverse kilometers of ocean to encounter and collect even kilos of floating plastic.

By any measurement the size of the problem overwhelms the current proposals to treat it. I suspect that a biological solution should hold more promise all things considered than any mechanical collection.

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