It's a terrible, terrible idea. Whatever ecological balance that has asserted itself in this area of slightly-higher-density particulates (pepper flakes of plas

It's a terrible, terrible idea. Whatever ecological balance that has asserted itself in this area of slightly-higher-density particulates (pepper flakes of plastic, the article calls them) will be greatly disturbed by running nets through the water to indiscriminately collect whatever. The top meter of the ocean contains most of it's life. So they're attempting, what, to sterilize the top meter? Remove whatever material the microorganisms have fastened onto to reproduce? To turn it's balance upside down by straining? What? Nothing useful, that's for sure.