Anybody else familiar with that phrase 'If the bath was overflowing, you wouldn't reach for the mop, you'd turn off the tap'? Well, that applies to plastic pollution, and in this case ghost nets, except the bath is the ocean and the water is ghost nets (ALDFG).

Ghost nets are fishing gear that have been lost, abandoned or discarded (ALDFG) and as a result are left to drift the sea. Unfortunately, whether or not anyone is hauling these nets in at the end of the day, they are still catching fish, along with almost anything else in their path. Here we'll dive into the problem so we can begin to action the solutions.

Let’s start at the beginning, that way nothing will be lost in translation...What are nurdles? Put simply, they’re the building blocks of almost all things plastic. While that makes them a very useful little tool, despite their size, they come with some big problems.

The Shortfin Mako Shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) is the fastest shark in the sea, but it’s still not fast enough to escape the rate at which we’re catching them. This isn’t news to us and is a well-recognised problem, so why is it seemingly getting worse?