[Photo: courtesy Got Bag] advertisement advertisement Along the coastlines of Indonesia—one of the places in the world where plastic trash is most likely to escape into the ocean—fishermen are now getting paid to haul in plastic along with their daily catch of fish. advertisement A German startup that recently launched in the U.S., called Got Bag, works with a network of 1,500 fishermen near Java, Indonesia, to collect plastic, which is then sorted and recycled into pellets that are turned into thread that the company uses to make backpacks and other bags. A single bag uses between 3 and 10 pounds of ocean plastic, depending on the size of the design.