On the scale that is required to clean up the ocean, removing plastics harms marine life. Ocean plastic aggregates marine animals; it's not like picking up tras

On the scale that is required to clean up the ocean, removing plastics harms marine life. Ocean plastic aggregates marine animals; it's not like picking up trash on the beach. I've had experience removing ghostnets from the oceans, and there's no way an unsupervised system is going to be able to collect these debris without by-catch. The haste required to meet the 5-year 50% removal goal also guarantees by-catch. The fact that the ocean is already full of man-made hazards, does not convince me that adding more man-made hazards will help us to reach sustainability goals: food security for communities dependent on the ocean animals; preventing plastic from entering human bodies through the food, air and water supplies. Also, I'm very curious what the ocean cleanup means by 50%. 92% of the plastic in the north pacific gyre is microplastic, which the system is incapable of collecting.