Plastic is flexible, water-resistant, lightweight, versatile and inexpensive. These attractive qualities have bought us to the current situation where plastics can be found across every inch of our planet. From daily encounters with individually shrink-wrapped vegetables in the supermarket to 10,994 metres below sea level in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, the problem of plastic is omnipresent in our consciousness and yet, we continue to (somewhat guilty) consume it.

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