Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Since the first TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch 15 years ago, where we shared the truth that plastic is pollution, awareness of the severity of the plastic pollution problem has grown significantly—but unfortunately, so has the crisis. Today we know: plastic poisons people, and the “Garbage Patch” is not just in the oceans, it is inside of us. Dianna Cohen welcomes speakers and attendees to the TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch 2025 event, where they gathered to ask: How Do We Solve Plastic Pollution by 2040? bit.ly/TEDxGPGP
Since the first TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch 15 years ago, where we shared the truth that plastic is pollution, awareness of the severity of the plastic pollution problem has grown significantly—but unfortunately, so has the crisis. Today we know: plastic poisons people, and the “Garbage Patch” is not just in the oceans, it is inside of us. Dianna Cohen welcomes speakers and attendees to the TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch 2025 event, where they gathered to ask: How Do We Solve Plastic Pollution by 2040? bit.ly/TEDxGPGP
