The plastic we use unthinkingly every day is killing our planet – and slowly but surely killing us

Another bottle. Yet another one. We are 200km from land, in the middle of the South Pacific, and this is the third bottle we’ve found already this morning.

Everywhere is plastic.

The plastic we use unthinkingly every single day, the plastic we throw away without a moment’s thought, it lives on, and on. Out here. Where it is killing our planet, killing our sea life, and, slowly but surely, killing us.

I am here as part of a team of researchers from the University of the South Pacific collecting seawater samples far removed from any human habitation.

My goal is to compare offshore concentrations of microplastics with those closer to shore. My hope is to put in place another piece in the Pacific puzzle.

Read on via The Guardian