Regarding plastics, didn’t Boyan Slat, who founded The Ocean Cleanup, come up with a new way to recycle plastic waste? I was thinking that he figured out how to take old plastic and make it into pellets again, where it could be recycled. Or was this just a marketing gimmick?
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Regarding plastics, didn’t Boyan Slat, who founded The Ocean Cleanup, come up with a new way to recycle plastic waste? I was thinking that he figured out how to take old plastic and make it into pellets again, where it could be recycled. Or was this just a marketing gimmick?
It's not entirely a gimmick or scam, but it absolutely does not work as advertised. Most of the Pacific Garbage Patch are almost invisible fibers and shreds that would require you to scoop up and kill a great deal of ocean life to harvest and recycle. I think Slat was pretty sure it would work, but it really hasn't. https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-17/ocean-cleanup-plastic-pollution-great-pacific-garbage-patch/102075810