Cleanup Group Says It Can Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in a Decade
The cleanup cost is less than one month’s profit for Apple, the group’s founder says.
A black plastic jerry can that was found washed ashore on Jimbaran Beach on January 30, 2021, at Bali, Indonesia. Huge concentrations of plastic are carried by currents to form massive collections of waste, such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between California and Hawaii. Agung Parameswara/Getty Images
