Over the past few decades, the plastic pollution in our oceans has worsened despite widespread public awareness campaigns and massive investments in recycling. With clickbait headlines and misrepresented imagery, a lot of online content is presenting inaccurate details that can harm efforts to clean up our oceans.
What we get wrong about ocean plastic and recycling does a lot of harm. Business Insider Producer Elizabeth McCauley gives an excellent example of how littering and individual acts of pollution are marketed as primary drivers in global pollution and how that is not true. McCauley researches scientific literature and talks with experts about ways that we can tackle the growing issue of ocean plastics and global pollution.
