“There was once a bronze age and an iron age… today we live in the age of plastic.”

So said, Boyan Slat, founder of the Ocean Clean Up project and one of our heroes at BWI.

Along with many others, Boyan has brought the problem of the plastic in our oceans to international attention. It is a symptom of our ‘throw away society’ and a world increasingly hungry for more.

The problems of plastic pollution is not a new problem but it is predicted to get worse. Researchers have even predicted there may be more plastic in the oceans than fish by 2050.

Fortunately, a few pioneering entrepeneurs have taken finding a solution to the problem into their own hands. They are pretty amazing but let’s not leave all the hard work up to them.

We put together this cool infographic to show the scale of the problem and to give you some simple tips on how we can all help to clean up our oceans.

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