Prototypes such as the way shark already exist, collecting plastics on the surface of the water near coastlines.

Earlier this year, Dutch startup Ocean Cleanup started testing a giant parachute to collect waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, one of the world's largest accumulations of ocean plastics.

It estimates there is almost 80 million kilograms of plastic in that patch, covering an area about three time besides France.

But relying on plastic removal isn't good enough.

Far better is to stop dumping so much plastic in the first place.

Today, a 1,000,000 metric tons of plastic clothes from land into the ocean every year the equivalent of one New York City garbage truck don't get haunted into the ocean every minute for a year.

The industrial world also must learn to recycle materials on mass rather than shipping it to Asia.

In 2018 China restricted imports on a variety of recyclables.

Almost overnight, way centers went from receiving $300 per ton of sorted plastics to paying $50 a ton just to get rid of it.

Innovations Air needed to create a circular economy in which use consumer goods are shared or transformed into new products wear only in the early stages.

Companies such as raw thes make shoes out of recycled plastics.

Well wrenched the runway enables women to share one dress rather than each purchasing an identical one.

In the electronics world, Dell says it has recycled £2 billion of electronics waste.

By 2050.

It says it will be able to make computers entirely from recycled parts, eliminating the need for mining.

Last year, Apple unveiled Daisy, a robot that could disassemble 200 iPhones per hour.

Sorting the components for reuse.

Carmakers are now being incentivized to emphasize longevity.

Right now, a car brand is only paid at the point of sale.

But in the future, when autonomous robo taxis roam the streets, they could get paid per mile of service.