Are we really on track to end up with more plastic in the ocean than fish?
Tom Chivers wonders if a combination of dubious maths and R&D breakthroughs could counter the most apocalyptic plastic waste predictions
There's a billboard up on a road near mine. It's a road that I often have to drive down with small children in the back of the car, and it's often clogged with other people hauling shrieking toddlers back...
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