Why we can't just filter the plastic out of the ocean

[Jardine]

@SpunkyTWS

I wish I could remember the details, but I do remember a journalist, or possibly a scientist, who said there was a “plastic island” in the Pacific later saying she regretted describing it that way. It may also have been that she didn’t use that term but that her explanation of the problem was misrepresented.

I’ve seen this and similar pictures used by the media to illustrate what it looks like. Thanks ignorant reporters.