Interdisciplinary approaches to raising awareness of plastics pollution. a Plastic debris collected during a beach clean-up on the day of eXXpedition Great Lakes. b Plastiglomerate sampled by P.L. Corcoran and K. Jazvac on Kamilo Beach. Pencil is 17 cm long. c Researchers sampling plastic pellets during the plastics pollution think tank event held in London, Canada. Participants in photo include earth scientists, artists, a Ichemist, a law student, an environmental scientist, and a government ministry researcher. d Ideas generated by members of the Synthetic Collective, research consultants, and graduate students during the think tank event