8 million metric tons of plastic trash enters the sea from land every year

the equivalent of five plastic bags filled with trash for every foot of
coastline in the world across our ocean plastic trash flows into
circulation dispersed almost everywhere but concentrating in huge swathes
in the midst of global currents breaking down into smaller and smaller
pieces ingested by species across the marine world and sinking to the
bottom of the sea anyone can make plastic anywhere in the world and sell it
anywhere else in the world there's no design paradigm there's no barriers
in order to solve the plastic packaging problem we need to effectively
rethink the entire system from one which is linear ie take make dispose to
one where it can be recoveredand fed back into the economy as a valuable
plastic material all one where it is by over nine and it can enter the
environment the ultimate goal of the new plastics economy is to design an
economy where plastic packaging never becomes waste and to do that we need
every single player in the chain to change the way that they do things but
marine pollution comes in many forms industrial agricultural and urban
waste also sweep into the sea fueling explosions of algae that robbed
marine ecosystems of the oxygen they need to survive with sustained
pollution these areas become dead zones which already exist in more than
400 locations across the globe but nutrient pollution can be managed
through change in major contributing systems like agriculture if you eat
you're involved in agriculture so it's a problem that all of us have to
work together to solve soil health is critical for water quality it's the
first thing we have to focus on here on the farm organic matter is the key
thing that we try to improve the more organic matter you have in the soil
the better the soil can hold on to nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen
organic matter keeps it from leaching out of the soil it grabs on to it and
that's good for the farmer but it's also good for water quality in the bay
for any farmer to change their system is tricky and it takes a lot of work
I think all farmers want to it's learning different processes practices
that allow you to do it effectively that becomes a key