The Science Behind Plastic Pollution

In college, it became real to me that there was a massive disconnect between the scientific community and the rest of the population. Scientific jargon is used in important papers and journals which can be very confusing if you haven't spent years studying the subject.  It's even easier to become confused when newscasters constantly promote fake or botched science, and do so in an incredible muddled way.  Science should be made widely available, and we need more people to translate big, bulky papers into readable material for the everyday person who hasn't spent years studying how to read and analyze them. 

So, I have taken a massive amount of science and broken it down into something more readable.  

Please, enjoy.

Photo Credits: NOAA,Gijsbert Tweehuijsen,  Chesapeake Bay Program, and  kris krüg