Africa is set to overtake Asia as the biggest plastic polluter in the world. This has been the warning from the Africa Marine Waste Network. In 2015, a video went viral on social media showing scientists struggling for eight agonising minutes to remove an object from a sea turtle’s nose. What they at first thought to be a worm turned out to be a plastic straw. This video kick started global campaigns to keep plastic out of the oceans

Guest: Sharné Woods - Head of Communications at Sustainable Seas Trust