Mr. Trash Wheel

Here’s a cool video on a water wheel-style boat that cruises around picking up trash, mostly plastic waste, from our harbors.

If this generates awareness of the problem, that’s great.  But I’ve become convinced that the only real place to fight plastic pollution is upstream, i.e., reducing the amount of waste in the first place.  To me, this means a blend of consumers’ refusing to purchase single-use plastics, and pressuring manufactures to quit this practice as well.