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The conversation touches on innovative methods to extract plastics from oceans, such as the device developed by a young inventor who has turned ocean plastic into useful products like sunglasses. While admirable, Lomborg suggests that focusing on simple municipal waste management—reducing land-based plastic waste—is more effective at global scale than intricate cleanup operations.
He criticizes the tendency to perceive solutions as complex or expensive when simple, proven methods like trash collection, burning, and improved waste management are often overlooked in favor of high-tech fixes.