In the Gulf of Mexico, trawlers ply back and forth year in year out, hauling vast nets that scarify the seabed and allow no time for plant and animal life to recover.
These jeans were laundered by dragging them in large mesh nets behind the ship, and the exposure to sea water and sun would gradually bleach them to white.
Others are trying to catch it with a massive fishing net and in August, a company called Astroscale successfully tested capturing a small satellite with a magnetic arm.