the bigger bits of plastic, like the ice sacks and stuff like that, they re all in the pots, they ve got 40 in a line. and you get a bit of, three, four foot square bit of plastic, wrapped around the rope. you go another 20, you might not see any more, and the next one you may have a bit. this, a picture of the plastic washed up on just one cornish beach in one day. artist rob arnold collected it and used it to make this, a micro plastic replica of an easter island statue, a civilisation some think may have collapsed after using up their resources. their resources were running out, and they couldn t get out fishing any more because they had cut down the trees. they had no wood to build fishing boats. it was a total disaster. so, you know, i see it as very
of an easter island statue, a civilisation some think may have collapsed after using up their resources. their resources were running out, and they couldn t get out fishing any more because they had cut down the trees. they had no wood to build fishing boats. it was a total disaster. so, you know, i see it as very similar to what we re doing now, really. we are also polluting the planet as well as using up all the resources. there is now a worldwide community using social media to map new finds. tracy has even written a book of what has been washed up. finding that first lego brick, the start of her piecing together how plastic stays in our seas, and always hoping, in the seaweed
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