When I was writing The Cobra Effect, which is about #plastic pollution, I wrote a series of vignettes to present some ideas of how we sometimes unconsciously/unintentionally contribute to the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean. My original plan was to put one of these little stories at the start of each chapter, but …
Tag: #microplastics
Nurdles
One particularly egregious way that we contaminate our oceans is with nurdle spills. Nurdles are tiny pellets of hard plastic, about a ¼ inch in diameter, (the size of a lentil) that are fed into machines that create plastic objects, from bags to toys to water bottles and the millions of other things we make …
The Cobra Effect Vignette 2
When I was writing The Cobra Effect, which is about #plastic pollution, I wrote a series of vignettes to present some ideas of how we sometimes unconsciously/unintentionally contribute to the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean. My original plan was to put one of these little stories at the start of each chapter, but …
The Cobra Effect Vignette 1
When I was writing The Cobra Effect, which is about #plastic pollution, I wrote a series of vignettes to present some ideas of how we sometimes unconsciously/unintentionally contribute to the problem of plastic pollution in the ocean. My original plan was to put one of these little stories at the start of each chapter, but …