Most of the plastic can not be practically recovered from the ocean. It's more of a publicity stunt and cleaning hotspots. We need to catch the plastics before

Most of the plastic can not be practically recovered from the ocean. It's more of a publicity stunt and cleaning hotspots. We need to catch the plastics before they go into the environment, disintegrate, release their plasticizers and other toxins. As has been said, best way to deal with all the plastic garbage that contains who-knows-what would probably be fuel, feedstock in refineries or similar.