“Away” in the Water

In the World of Away…

Once Upon a Time there was a land called Oceanic Bliss. The people there lived alongside the schools of fish and the whales. They also lived with the ocean’s currents that always seemed to be flowing against them, slowing them down. 

Then the gifts came.

These gifts were made of plastic and when they arrived everything got easier, quicker, more convenient. Suddenly the currents seemed to be always at their backs, helping them go faster. 

Things seemed to get better and better. 

But the gifts kept coming. The world filled up with plastics. Fish got stuck in yogurt containers. Sharks were hit in the eye by milk jug torpedoes. Seaweed even got tangled up in shiny chocolate bar wrappers. Eventually, the plastics absorbed all the water and the ocean itself dried up, leaving the people nothing but memories of the currents and all the places they used to go.

In our world right here…

The world’s oceans are filled with trash—especially plastic. The Pacific is home to a patch of plastic garbage three times the size of France.

The United Nations has highlighted Clean Water & Sanitation and Life Below Water as Sustainable Development Goals. Learn more here.

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