How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time

An accessible guide to the changes we can all make-small and large-to rid our lives of disposable plastic and clean up the world's oceans

It takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to fully biodegrade, and there are around 12.7 million tons of plastic entering the ocean each year. At our current pace, in the year 2050 there could be more plastic in the oceans than fish, by weight. These are alarming figures, but plastic pollution is an environmental crisis with a solution we can all contribute...