The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not an island of trash; it resembles a plastic soup, with areas of higher plastic concentration (hotspots) spread over an estimated surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers—three times the size of France. To improve the efficiency of our cleanup operations and address the urgency of the plastic pollution problem in the GPGP, this year we are developing methods to use GPS trackers and drones to locate plastic hotspots in real time. These innovations will he