These women are sailing around the world to study the millions of tons of plastic that enter the oceans every year -- and how they can affect the environment and the human body: CallToEarth
Eight hundred miles from land in the Pacific Ocean, Emily Penn had a revelation. It was the late 2000s and she was working aboard the boat Earthrace as it circumnavigated the globe. Jumping overboard for a wash, she saw a toothbrush floating by. Then a cigarette lighter. Then a bottle top. Then hundreds of plastic fragments came into view."It just didn't make any sense," she recalls.
Penn was in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, an area that has become notorious for its plastic problem. A large circulating current, it causes plastic pollution to accumulate, breaking down under UV rays until they become tiny fragments called microplastics. Some fragments stay on the surface, while others sink. As microplastics, some enter the food chain -- and, eventually, human bodies.
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