Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to ... Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. When photographer Mandy Barker returned ...

NAtional Geographic The magazine has devoted much of its issue to the problem; the plastic pollution we can see at the surface is probably just a small proportion of what's in the ocean.