It's taken a Dutch boy with 200 euros of saved-up pocket money to instigate cleaning up our filthy oceans.
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The amount of plastic being discarded into the marine environment is such that we could eventually see an ocean where the amount of plastics is roughly one third the total biomass of fish - 1lb of plastic for every 2lbs of fish, according to Nicholas Mallos from Ocean Conservancy, which organises coastal clean-ups.
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The damage to all kinds of marine life is huge.
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"Because jellyfish are so slippery, turtles have a system in their throat that stops their prey from slipping out, so even if you find out it's a plastic bag, it has to go in all the way"
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But maybe, just maybe, one idealistic lad's dream could come true . . .
The Dutch boy mopping up a sea of plastic 