Plastic soup

A vast amount of plastic waste, twice the size of the United States is floating in the Pacific Ocean - welcome to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: the Plastic Soup. Plastic is an incredible material we can't do without - but it also creates the biggest pollution problem imaginable. This is something Jesse Goossens finds out during her travels and conversations across the United States and Europe. Her blog and interviews read like shock therapy. She soberingly uncovers the effects of plastic waste on our health and on the environment - not only in the Pacific Ocean, but everywhere on earth. But we have a choice ...