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The Pacific voyage aboard the 60-foot catamaran is intended to highlight the growing amount of plastic waste in the oceans and to spur public debate on finding ways to turn the waste into a resource.
Yet various economists, including the late Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, have shown that in some cases communities can and do come together to solve such tragedies, often finding a middle way between nationalizing and privatizing the threatened resource.