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Can We Actually Clean Up the Plastic Pollution Problem?
Season 9 Episode 17 | 15m 15s
| Video has closed captioning.
There hasn’t been enough talk about the **ridiculously unthinkable scale of the ocean plastic pollution problem** or how it intersects with other environmental issues like climate change. And here’s a big spoiler alert: Nearly all environmental scientists agree that ocean plastic pollution isn’t a problem we can clean our way out of. So what CAN we do? That’s what this video is about.
