I don’t really have any stats to support either view but the key point is this, if accurate > It's much cheaper to prevent plastic reaching the ocean than clea

I don’t really have any stats to support either view but the key point is this, if accurate > It's much cheaper to prevent plastic reaching the ocean than cleaning it up We may have 7.7 billion people but less than 0.1% are free and down to work on climate clean up so that doesn’t matter. If one activity is relatively inefficient then it probably shouldn’t be done. The argument here is that you can bail water with a teaspoon or you can plug the hole in the boat. Detractors are saying don’t waste your time with the tea spoon, and you’re saying “well at least it helps!” Similar arguments apply to whether we should burn garbage or not depending on the price of natural gas, or whether or not we should use energy to pull carbon from the sky. Again I don’t know if the detractors are correct but I wouldn’t be shocked if true.