Oceans cover 71% of our planet and contain a volume of plastic that has become so high that "in just a few years, we might end up with a pound of plastic for every three pounds of fish in the sea" (1). Every year, more than 8 millions metric tons of plastics enter our oceans on top of an estimated 150 million metric tons already circulating through them (1). The Pacific Garbage Patch has become a poignant icon of ocean pollution across media outlets, environmental campaigns, and social media platforms. We've all seen the images of birds nesting in piles of garbage, sea turtles with plastic straws up their noses, and fish entangled in netting that are displayed across the internet. But even more horrifying is that "approximately half of all plastic pollution is submerged below the ocean surface, much of it in the form of microplastics so small that we may never be able to clean them up completely" (2).