Dame Ellen battles against the ‘tide of plastic’

Rebecca Erskine discovers what Derbyshire’s Dame Ellen MacArthur is doing – and how we can all help limit the damage caused to our environment by plastic waste.

SINCE Blue Planet II first reported our oceans in crisis, there’s been a swell of images depicting the distressing damage caused by plastic. With this most convenient of material comes the most inconvenient truth… that global apathy is exponentially increasing the amount of plastic in our oceans – some of which will take hundreds of years to decompose, if at all…