“The Ocean Cleanup develops technologies to extract, prevent, and intercept plastic pollution. The Ocean Cleanup’s goal is to fuel the world’s fight against oceanic plastic pollution, by initiating the largest cleanup in history…The plastic pollution problem:

• Millions of tons of plastic have entered the oceans (UNEP 2005)
• Plastic concentrates in five rotating currents, called gyres (Maximenko et al., 2012)
• In these gyres there is on average six times more plastic than zooplankton by dry weight (Moore et al., 2001)”