s ocean sailors, Rupert and Nikki Rowe were well acquainted with the problem of maritime garbage patches, huge aggregations of predominantly discarded plastics clogging up the world's oceans and causing catastrophic impact on marine life and ecosystems. They'd spent a collective 23 years based in the south of France, crewing on super yachts sailing the Mediterranean, Caribbean and other central American seas and seen firsthand the appalling problem of plastic waste, which UNESCO estimates makes up 80 per cent of marine pollution and by 2050 will outweigh all the fish in the
