at the micro plastics, they will tell you just how many thousands of bits there are. fishermen, too, are finding lego pieces in their catches miles out to sea. yeah, this is lethal stuff. this is the packaging you get on pallets. and much more plastic besides. phil has been fishing here for a0 years and he says he now holds in plastic with almost every catch. we generally pick it up, 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
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