The Plastic Oceans International: The Trash Isles – How a brave act will ensure the world’s first country made of trash is the last

Plastic Oceans International, a non-profit company, put the issue of plastic pollution in our oceans on the global agenda by turning a country-sized patch of trash into the world's 196th nation.

Executive Summary

There is a danger lurking in our oceans.

Lingering out at sea, just beyond our periphery.

A danger which poses a threat to our wildlife, our ecosystems, our way of life, our planet.

Yet it is something that those in power have simply ignored. And despite the devastating effect it is already having, it is far removed from public consciousness.

So we set out to find a way to make this threat impossible to ignore. To find an insight that made sure that 'out-of-sight out-of-mind' became firmly front and centre.

We took those in power to task, rooting...

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