2019 Brave Awards commended, The Plastic Oceans

There is a danger lurking in our oceans. Lingering out at sea, just beyond our periphery. A danger which poses a threat to our wildlife, our ecosystems, our way of life, our planet. Yet it is something that those in power have simply ignored. And despite the devastating effect it is already having, it is far removed from public consciousness.

So we set out to find a way to make this threat impossible to ignore. To find an insight that made sure that ‘out-of-sight out-of-mind’ became firmly front and centre.

We took those in power to task, rooting our insights in their own tools. We made other nations pay attention by infiltrating their ranks. And we galvanised an audience to make the invisible, visible. This is the story of how Plastic Oceans took on the issue of plastic pollution.

How we faced into the mess in our oceans, to put it on the global agenda. How we turned a country-sized patch of trash, into an actual country. And how we reached the very top of...