One of the biggest issues facing our oceans is plastic waste. Damage to economies, industry, and the environment is estimated to cost the world $2.5 trillion annually. But there's hope on the horizon.

Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034. That is — if it has the necessary funds to do so. In a recent press release,

The organization Ocean Cleanup says it can have the Great Pacific Garbage Patch eliminated within the next five years at a cost of $4 billion. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the largest area of ocean plastic in the world,

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or GPGP for short, isn't exactly what you might have heard. It's not a floating garbage land-mass twice the size of Texas that you can settle, even though it kind of already has its own currency (called Debris),