The Plastic Age

...and our beaches, forests and the Great Wall of China too.

We all talk about the Stone Age, the Iron Age and the Bronze Age, but what era are we living in right now? People are starting to refer to us as the - far less romantic - Plastic Age. We make 288 million tons of plastic a year, and unlike paper, metal...

We speak to Jake Sumner, director of i-D's new documentary exploring plastic pollution in the ocean, and what fashion is doing to fight it.

Find out how Pharrell and G-Star are working together to fish 700,000 tons of plastic out of our oceans.