The ocean collects garbage. Not in any discerning, connoisseurial way–no, the ocean collects garbage with the enthusiasm of a hoarder, taking all trash put into it and holding on to it forever. To clean up a small part of this trash, Richard Hardiman of RanMarine us using small robots in Rotterdam that catch garbage before it works its way across the sea and into a great garbage patch.
http://www.popsci.com/waste-shark-is-garbage-collecting-sea-drone
