Royal Geographical Society - Plastic Pollution in the Ocean

Plastics have become an integral part of our daily lives with virtually everything we do and much of the food and drink we consume involving the use of plastics in some form or other. However our throw away society is polluting large areas of the world’s oceans with plastics, threatening marine life and food chains. How did it get there? What are the practical solutions? And is it time to re-evaluate how we use and reuse plastic?

David de Rothschild, Founder of Adventure Ecology and leader of the Plastiki exhibtion

Dr Simon Boxall, Oceanographer, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer, Founder of Mission Blue and Explorer In Residence at The National Geographic

Edwin Broni-Mensah – Founder of GiveMeTap

Professor Richard Thompson, School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University

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