Can we recycle the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

Slat's company, The Ocean Cleanup, wants to launch a fleet of floating trash collectors that will clean up to 50 percent of the great Pacific garbage ... The science we have so far suggests the time and money could be better spent investing elsewhere, like in waste management or recycling, experts say. read more

Recycling the great pacific garbage patch is a very tough act to follow because the damage has already been done, the only thing we can do is to reduce it by recycling most of our plastic product that we are not using again to stop more garbage to the pacific. read more

The patch is so big that last fall environmentalists called on the United Nations to declare the Great Pacific Garbage Patch a country, called "The Trash Isles," complete with its own passport and currency, called debris. read more