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How Sailing Across the Pacific Changed My Thinking About Plastic
In our pristine-looking path to Hawaii, it was all there - 87,000 tons of plastic waste churned into a thick soup.
26 Jun 2020, 03:28 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- I knew so little about the ocean when I accepted a job as a writing teacher with Semester at Sea and set out west across the Pacific. Mostly I craved an epic journey, and our four-month itinerary through a smattering of ports in Asia and Africa read to me like a guarantee. In between cities like Beijing and Yangon, the sea would serve as a palate cleanser.
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