That’s a bold plan. The top hotspots for trash are the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the Indian Ocean’s Trash Island, and the Gulf of Mexico’s plastic plume. In coastal zones, places like Los Angeles Harbor, Jakarta’s Sunda Strait, and the Amazon River mouth tend to dump the most. If you’re thinking about a high‑speed machine, you’ll need to model the currents and debris density first—those numbers change with seasons and tides. Let’s pull the latest satellite and AIS data and sketch a rough target map before you crank the engines.