Could Plastic-Eating Robots Clean Up Our Oceans?
1 sourceUpdated Sep 1, 2026


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My worry is these robots eating microplastics might also scoop up small marine life. Hope they've tested for bycatch.
Feels like we're treating the symptom instead of the disease. Stop the plastic at the source - rivers and coastlines - before it hits the gyres.
Cool tech, but who's paying to scale this up and maintain it in open ocean conditions? That's the real question.