Conservation Magazine notes a study recently published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, that reports ocean clean-up efforts for plastics should focus on shore line areas, the source of the problem, rather than areas of open ocean or so-called ‘garbage patches.’ In the study, researchers modeled how much plastic could be removed by floating garbage collectors and determined that the best places to site plastic collectors is where the most plastic is moving through, not in the places where the most plastic ends up. ‘It makes sense to remove plastics where they first enter the ocean around dense coastal economic or population centers,’ says researcher Erik van Sebille. >Read More via http://conservationmagazine.org/2016/02/to-get-plastic-out-of-the-sea-look-to-the-land/