Some Marine Biologists Want Ocean Plastics to Stay Right Where They Are

Today in bizarre contrarian news, as Boyan Slat’s Ocean Cleanups zigzag the seas cleaning up humanity’s great mess, Georgetown University Marine Ecologist Rebecca Helm—a PhD with stints beneath her belt at such esteemed institutions as Brown University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and so on—has put forth the curious perspective that ocean trash should stay right where it is.

“Some ocean cleanup projects could deprive the...