Following the first Race for Water Odyssey, an expedition launched by the Foundation in 2015 to take the first global inventory of ocean plastic pollution, the findings are stark : the plastic pollution is everywhere. There is no 7th continent, no plastic island, but a soup of plastic waste floating in the "gyres". Only a tiny fraction remains visible on the surface. The majority has sunk or fragmented into infinitesimal pieces. Large-scale ocean clean-up is therefore unrealistic. Only land-based solutions can effectively combat this scourge of the 21st century.
Comment ? Firstly, by encouraging everyone to reduce their plastic waste and by stimulating recycling. But also by proposing new models of waste management thanks to a technology capable of transforming plastic waste into electricity.
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