14 WOMEN, 3000 MILES, X TRILLION PIECES OF PLASTIC

A journey that promises to change not only the women's 

lives but the very future of our planet

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One thousand miles from land. The closest humans orbit above in the space station. A lone boat awakens to calm.

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Then, a fragment. Followed by a toothbrush, a washing basket, a garden chair. Surface samples bring up handfuls of tiny microplastics.

 

Looking out over the ocean, a few pieces of plastic float visibly in sight.

 

But a realisation dawns – we’re looking at a dense soup of tiny pieces.

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The crew record an average of half a million pieces of microplastics per square kilometre here, and that is only on the surface.

 

Who knows how much is in the 5000 metres of water beneath.