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Why can’t we rely on technology to clean the oceans of our plastic waste?

Why can’t we rely on technology to clean the oceans of our plastic waste?

Update: 2023-11-14
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The terrible scale of our planet’s plastic pollution crisis has been making headlines in recent years, as have a number of apparent technological solutions to the problem – but can we really rely on physical ocean clean-ups to sort out the mess for us?


Special guest Ewoud Lauwerier, Plastic Policy Expert with OceanCare, and EIA Ocean Campaigner Jacob Kean-Hammerson join EIA Senior Press and Communications Officer Paul Newman to discuss the findings and implications of our new jointly produced report Clean-ups or clean-washing? How plastic pollution clean-up technology can actually harm the environment and obstruct policy progress.

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Why can’t we rely on technology to clean the oceans of our plastic waste?

Why can’t we rely on technology to clean the oceans of our plastic waste?

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