The plastic problem
What we use for just minutes
Will last a long, long time
Something glints at sea
I squint to see what it is
It’s only plastic
All the fish gagging
Panic at the sea bottom
Mass death soon follows
Plastic everywhere
Microplastics in our drink
In what we eat, breathe
How is the ocean not enraged,
swelling—
how is it not furious with grief:
we have drowned it in plastic,
its waves are no longer its own.
—Ashley Asti
Inside a sperm whale
Six kilos of plastic waste
In Wakatobi
Death from the ocean
Plastic maims and murders
Carnage all ashore
Our plastic lifestyle
It is killing coral reefs
From here to Queensland
O plastic horror
A seahorse astride a Q-tip
Octopi gagging
Marine life at risk
Seas have become plastic soup
Seabirds are dying
Save the sea lion
On the verge of extinction
Plastic ingestion
Governments, wake up
Outlaw single-use plastic
Our future’s at stake
Plastic waste clogs drains
Causing great floods in Delhi
We’re choking to death
Plastic is consumed
10 million bags per minute
No ban in Austin
Each day in the States
Half a billion plastic straws
No plastic straws, please
Drown in a cesspool
Garbage on Manila Bay
Can’t swim on Pasig