Since you mention it, there's a surprising effort to remove plastic from the ocean too: https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/first-100000-kg-removed-from-the-gre

Since you mention it, there's a surprising effort to remove plastic from the ocean too: https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/first-100000-kg-removed-from-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch/ https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/first-100000-kg-removed-... It's definitely a drop in the bucket, but a nice improvement over the we-can't-do-anything attitude previously on the pacific garbage patch