This is a white-paper proposal for a clean-up effort that nobody wants to fund. The CEO of Ocean Cleanup has been pitching this fix since 2012. This isn’t even a new idea, its just been going through permutations of refinement since the initial proposal, with funding coming primarily from private independent donations. But we’re talking tens-of-millions raised on a project that needs 100x that amount.
And it does not appear to include the cost of physically processing the removed waste, just collecting and moving it to another location.
Given the stinginess of state governments when it comes to waste cleanup, I’m not holding my breath.