The 'garbage patch' is a soup of plastic flakes. Not like river trash; nothing at all like river trash. To the degree this enterprise can remove pepper-sided p

The 'garbage patch' is a soup of plastic flakes. Not like river trash; nothing at all like river trash. To the degree this enterprise can remove pepper-sided particles of plastic floating near the surface, it will impact microscopic organisms almost exclusively. To the degree it does not clean at that level, it is not an ocean-cleanup device. River garbage is, I think (and I began by saying) a brilliant solution. Keep it clean, rather than clean-up-after. Almost all the garbage comes from humans on land after all.