Plastics tsunami: Can a landmark treaty stop waste from choking the oceans?

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03793-3

Author: Meera Subramanian, Nature

On a warm windy day in early April, Jace Tunnell steps out of his car at Morgan’s Point, a spit of land that juts out into the Houston Ship Channel in Texas. Tunnell, a marine biologist and reserve director at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, sets his watch and gets to work, walking along the high-tide line and picking up every plastic pellet he can see.