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On Saturday, a team of anti-plastic superheroes will gather for a worldwide webcast of TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch, a forum all about plastic pollution around the world and ideas for how to solve it.
For anyone who doesn't know, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is essentially the world's largest landfill—estimated anywhere between the size of Texas and the entire U.S., 90 percent of it plastic—swimming in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It's not only giant, it is also disrupts the entire food chain. The smallest forms of marine life end up eating tiny plastic particles that break off from the giant mass—and work their way up the food chain.
So on Saturday, the Plastic Pollution Coalition will host the latest TEDx event, featuring Sylvia Earle, Captain Charles Moore, Van Jones, Ferris Thompson, Chris Jordan, Beth Terry, Fabien Cousteau, David de Rothschild, and several others.
The speakers will talk about how plastic pollution affects the health of oceans in particular and the environment generally, but they'll also explore solutions for reducing plastic consumption, and ideas for eliminating plastic pollution through individual action as well as mass innovation.
It wouldn't be an awareness-oriented event if they weren't encouraging people to organize viewing parties at home, so bring some friends over and join the fight against plastic.
More about plastic pollution in the oceans:
The Pacific Garbage Patch Explained -- New Updates
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Slideshow)
The Atlantic Gets Its Own Great Plastic Garbage Patch
How Plastic-Free Living is Done: An Interview with Beth Terry from Fake Plastic Fish
