“It wasn’t like I was looking to stop sailing, I never thought I would stop sailing ever, ever, ever, no way,” she said. Within two years of launching her foundation, MacArthur was presenting an analysis on the circular economy to the World Economic Forum. Perhaps the most devastating statistic was the finding that if plastic leakage is not quenched, by 2050 the ocean will contain more plastic than fish by weight. We need to change the way people think, the way things are designed, the materials that are put into them,” she said. “There are mechanisms to speed these things up, regulation or policy change,” is as far as she will go.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2017 09:30 UTC