"This year, The Ocean Cleanup removed 11.5 million kilos of plastic from oceans and rivers." I don't want to diminish this effort, but just to put this into pe

"This year, The Ocean Cleanup removed 11.5 million kilos of plastic from oceans and rivers." I don't want to diminish this effort, but just to put this into perspective: * About 460 million tons of plastic are produced every year * About 20 million tons of that plastic end up in the environment as litter * About 14 million tons of plastic end up in the seas every year, so this project removed roughly 0.08% of that.