Fingerprints In The Water

The ocean is not silent. It is calling.

When plastic begins washing ashore on the beaches of Cape Breton, fifteen-year-old Kai Chen sees what most people have learned to ignore: bottles, bags, fishing line, cigarette butts, and fragments of waste scattered across the shore. Everyone knows the ocean is polluted. Everyone knows something should be done.

But the damage reaches far beyond what can be collected from the sand.

Microplastics drift through the currents. Ghost gear traps marine life. T...