Marine plastics

heavymental
heavymental Posts: 2,095
edited March 2008 in The bottom bracket
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7312777.stm

Apparently there's some huge raft of plastics floating around in the middle of the ocean somewhere. Could they not scoop it up and recycle it all or is plastic recycling not that easy? I know they break it down into little 'nurdles' but can't they do anything useful with it?