We Need to Talk About Our Plastic Problem
Our Oceans Need Our Help — Here’s Why:
5 min readJun 7, 2021
It was 2007. A teacher silenced my boisterous class in our shabby classroom. Exhausted, she pleaded with us to pay attention. The lesson was on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a recent discovery by Charles J. Moore. After ten years, it had finally gained public traction.