Anthony "Van" Jones is a senior fellow at the Center For American Progress and a founder and senior policy advisor at Green for All, an NGO dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.

He lays out a case against plastic pollution from the perspective of social justice. Plastic trash, he argues, hits poor people and poor countries "first and worst," with consequences we all share regardless of where we live and what we earn. At a recent TEDx that focused on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (TEDxGPGP), he offers a few powerful ideas to help us reclaim our throwaway planet.

(Source: The economic injustice of plastic [Guardian])