toxic plastic soup initially plastic waste this picked up by the stomachs of marine inhabitants and then at the end of the food chain is delivered to our plates before i met the old female crew of sea dragon i never sailed and didn't know how to change the world but i did know that if you want to make a change you must start with yourself and as a beginning i decided to make this film. so everything in travels. that i gauge tell you all the right cliffs and bridges highways that they didn't get it didn't. have it yet it has everything for me it really began about eight years ago i had the opportunity to take a boat around the world we set up but the best couple of years on the sea dragon. wanted to look at these islands of pasta that we were hearing about and quickly realized that actually what we were looking for what the micro plastics is these tiny pieces. that you. carry and knowing it affects them

bad. and that then opened up this whole question about toxics and that's really where x. expedition that came from all right let's move would be to get everyone i'm shanley i'm your skipper for this lieutenant going to be an awesome week i have been living on board c dragon for the past three and a half years now and she's a great home so yeah we're. where we're going to get to go on this phone cameras already here. hi guys i'm john mission coordinator for this leg of x. expedition caribbean i was on the first x. expedition across the atlantic in two thousand and fourteen with emily. i had never sailed before and mary morris unless i'm going the way i am from wales in the u.k. and i'm the condom bought them jammed. and. that it marine geology and

my background is in biology and also pharmaceutical sciences i'm studying green enough for history for the i'm all chased a marine scientist and then i'm also about promoting women in science i've been really a strong supporter about women in stem careers. then the last thing is i'm a breast cancer survivor you guys don't get seasick i mean that's not a problem but if it hits we're talking about where to puke right the best place to be is inside the comics so that's what we call this mistake here that you'll be sitting on it runs up and down your it's inside of the clinton not trying to hang over the side of the boat to get it into the water just puke on the side we have a hose these guys here these little glue that's here are called the eclipse so basically when the boats heeled want to wear the other we're kind of rolling back and forth this is what's going to keep you in your bunk the right on the right because they need to. twenty times already spends twenty i don't think so

long hikes and say twenty times up and down like a wall so this will rise a little bit but so the writing says you know and then he's going to just still want to live there and i care. and i think this might be her now so let's see you know that and to let you know in sabrina. grant i'm leaving at that interval down the would be awesome this is like on the how you're just right home. because the people. and. the roof and the railing.

you know i'm terrible at writing income much easier than i think you. know things got ahead and i just knew him to a. human like a drug that was going to drive me to win gold on the. rights to push the bad there are. they the reality is that they see these islands that we've heard of they didn't exist in the middle of the asia and you do you get high accumulations in a we see these photos of these masses of plastic that looks that you will come them and but they're all very costo out in the middle of the ocean we get some areas. where we get localized areas where big a piece accumulate but the reality is the most of the a ship is covered in this

fine lair of micro plastics tiny tiny little fragments and that's what we're looking for hit today in the sample everything. one two three. and so we've got that hole in the woods and now we've just been adjusting the lines and to to get the tool actually flying along the sickness of the asian and we don't want it to dip down and we don't want it to skip over the top they were basically now we'll walk she now to make sure that that. is going into batman's and into the troll will do this the next few minutes and then will and will have a will. i think the biggest thing that has shocked me is that we've never had an empty troll no matter where we've been whether it. and the caribbean the baltic. out in the middle of the atlantic we've always had a plus to kind of scale. when you haven't seen land for like eight days sailing out

sea is was the closest people to you are in the space station and you're still finding that human impact. like. the something. you like. many of the. caribbean is lucky because it isn't on the team one of the giants one of the accumulation of things we hate to see what is here actually happened it. sticks out which is that worries me is the state of mind state security system. but we seem so far should daily styrofoam to take away containers.

must take. the ones. home the smoking gun. this month on the sly needs thirty minutes if. we get something sorted all of the things that we captured into a set of three sets of differing. so there's the top serve or parents go down smallish and we're going to use. these. to capture certain things so things that we think that look like plastic and even interesting organics biota that we might want to have a look at on a microscope. oh no these things are this is plastic. yes can you see

the world really. but if you think it's just a little stretch of ocean it's a little bit of ocean and it's quite scary because we always find something. similar time we seem to spend and see the world we realize that the solutions to say many of these things start on land and that's a big reason for the shift to the caribbean and sex positions now to be say a land based. trade. where the abandoned that's yes. there's no doubt what i want sunk not too long ago. this is on the area just over this next door it's a little fishing community we're just going to try and do an estimate here the

plastic bottles the palestine and everything that we're seeing and say that we can record that in the range every time that. is just it has been sitting down they don't come here and you don't really. want to pass the banks and to see if you can give an estimate of what we've got here and spend you want to do i've been counting polystyrene alone so basically these containers here that you can see that are for takeaway food so people obviously come in they just throw them into the water as disposal i mean rochester there's another one i had counted four hundred thirty eight pieces of styrofoam alone like we can recognize these things now spray bottles these dishes the styrofoam we recognize the stuff but once it gets out in the ocean what you'll find is that pastika breaks down really quickly because of the movement of the way. in the

sunlight the u.v. it breaks down smaller and smaller and smaller into little plastic fragments so it may not be harmful for that little fish that eats one fragment of plastic but once it makes its way up the food chain it's getting to levels that are harmful to human health and marine health to. so this is the kind of thing that you. don't want to see just as much as you don't want to see little pieces of fragment only pull up or shall. there be something for it but we don't have the equipment so we have to think of some way of getting all these so you know and the main face and would fish speak clean out and then in the sort of big picture long you might like to see instantly we don't have a lot of education we compete simply because we don't have money. to do but you want the old really look to do you know so we can show people the results of their bad practices you know that kind of the. documentary to dismiss

general education. as really. well without first being in touch yes absolutely thank you david when i haven't met you yet again. all right. i don't know president seems to me personally to tell you if he's a sociopath who enjoys i can't tell you that he's probably not that he probably thinks that he's doing the right thing that this is a necessary evil that he needs to eliminate you know other differing political points of view and that he needs to crack down on people for having sought to thinks that he's doing it for the best interests of the church he thinks that he's doing your for the best interests of egyptians but it's definitely not the case.

and the instant media darling and certainly a fresh face the newly minted congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez is rattling some democratic establishment cage's she calls herself a democratic socialist and she has some big clients is the democratic party and america ready to pay to see. if like there's someone else living inside of me or controlling my body. the byproduct of that drug is the cause like severe depression. because it will need him into a zombie is crazy. you know we don't have to do anything it's not our fault the

oceans crazy and all that. took years of traumatic takes a long time to get rid of. donald and. the protestant and the dust and with us well i said big man wanted over i did what is a made man mine did my lawyer use his truck driver truck and just been trough by his out a dollar and. i think we done what every bishop learning on our. say we hand them out pell insulation today we need to try to get an understanding of the big challenges around waste management on these small islands the way you have ordered this particular and thing on in will take the package to be made to see the it comes wrapped in plastic and is really very limited options to what you can do with that two things. separated the majority of it does get buried you can see here

you know this is just one of the ways from the whole island and. it's not really any sort of separation happens either household level or at least facility level. rustics. issue because i'm sure you've seen them all over. there even more expensive to deal with because you need to collect the last thirty. or so it it's getting shipped to. some of them to wow so much. to well happen to all this trash you know it's not really a system to do with it. yeah kind of makes me sad in one way. oh it's horrendous i don't even know what to say there's like bags lying about.

where are they going to go out. looking forward to learning undertake the next. day this is the any thank you ten times and and expanding you say which kind of new concept is that just getting going and you name it it's working we. want schools to get in school construction green that way to be. safe he tells me we should send these kinds if you know we are responsible. for that waste and she want to do the right thing with it and eventually we'll hopefully get to a household level as well. let me give you any decisions. thank you thank you you thank.

i. think. that what. is it terry. is remember. these are just really a huge story for the kids in this book trying to find that oh crikey they all quite have. i think we could make a sculpture of this i could see that i might need someone else to pick them up for me. just. to go to.

the. we see a lot of plastic that's going down drains running down streams and with guys and ultimately everything. down to the asian house and the parents retain around and past it goes into these parents this is what we call and she had. needs. to wolves and cities in. this edition stats here on our land what. do you see. plastic bags for close to a. very good question because we didn't really meet them and say listen let's not have so you could go in to to the supermarket and. and i asked

them if they need to provide that oh if it hurts people to bring that and instead and this in some places around the globe think now ted and tags on the plastic backseat ain't right which is we would g.'s the number of plastic bags that anybody uses the road it can be more will be. no suspects without. clothes. washed up. so we got the ok to. keep. the lid. behaving. the way.

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again. i don't want to talk about these they've. become we know that i mean. that every experience there were five but everybody else was the one thing basically. what he's thinking i have to say you know it's not just in the least some interest saying you know i didn't. start this i'm not the sketch. flying up on the state road do you feel no light i still i'm old.

now. yes there are crazy. fancy belching.

and the yes and it. is just like you don't get strength here all the way in which is feeling the french for my last chemo is january eighth and by august i still look like lice and ellie. oh it was like you know me i get insured and a half spiky. bikini back. hurt her back. and i guess sessional sad she went out like create my head in life hold everything in place and put my head back on that hill and not move that maybe it comes thing the way it rested part hope so right before coming on this trip i celery this is my

two year anniversary for being cancer free that's part of this trip for me and also raising awareness about these chemical that are in our environment they're in our oceans they're in our seafood they're even in our ground water supply and thinking about what are we putting into our bodies and how that's ultimately affecting us truth be told one in promise will get cancer. of the hardest moment and. they say here you spend you take. the hardest moment. just so i gets to see how i'm going to have my problems but you all right. do you have to keep up but is tied to the oath begs the chemo.

you know sometimes ignorance is bliss and we don't know what wonder drugs going to do to you. then you kind of don't worry but as a scientist and having studied a lot of stuff i knew. what they were pumping into my body what was about the how. the car is who is here. so i was more scared of the drugs to keep certain that i love the chemicals that we're finding in the air and we all finding in our own bodies and constant attempts i mean the fact that they are increasing makes us feel like they probably have an action to the rising rates of cancer and definitely being part of expectation and the thought that. the toxic chemicals that i think he'll get into my body over a mile of time i would pop out on my shoulder and. the only reason why i would like . to go in to become a mother and i can tell you that. having a final obstacle of

a child was just not for me or not in the stars but you know i don't think a thought is i can't be a mother. just on this side of the lines. somewhere that they're not on the floor. i mean when you are. oh. yeah. you. are. through this. can anyone get this how do. we use sixty thousand times. banks

get. plowed yet you know you really get it it's very very sad and we he's a sixty pounds and i'm stating facts and these facts they get used once maybe twice and probably three times that that's and you didn't. play house then room for any reason strop you go out with a straw in their drink yeah. that's right that's a perfect example of single use do you think you could do without a straw or do you think we're capable of looking at lifting a glass to our lips and drinking from a. lot of other alternatives to like glass containers throughout the result home and these are all things that you guys can take back to your parents now because you can tell them let's stop using plastic or at least reduce our use of plastic do you think you guys could do that yeah i hear without a good and. bad

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but work legal the legal use the right location but the one who will be able through. all of us who are old and old are going to be. because related to three rest of. us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort for and easiness

for. me and i mean i did eventually you know you're. going to. doesn't want to know most of us will be in your years and years it was notable to. not play for you. we thought we three ways though i did my best religion i said i'd . feel. the same enough to see if there was no. choice these schools get. you know it's no you know cause.

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