Quick one. My team tells me we actually have very few reviews relative to the weekly audience

numbers. This is no doubt my fault, as I've always felt a little weird about asking you

to do something for me. But clearly, if you don't ask, you don't get. So if you're enjoying

the show, if it's providing you value, please take 30 seconds and leave a review on Apple

or Spotify. In doing so, you'll help the show rank higher, which means we can continue

to attract the brightest and most trustworthy people in science. My team and I have big

plans for the show where we want to be in 24 months and we need your help to make this

possible. We produce 300 million tons of plastic every year between 8 and 14 million

tons of plastic going to the ocean every year. Plastic continues to exist forever. It just

breaks down to smaller pieces and ultimately in the ocean it ends up as being plastic

dust. It's tiny, tiny, tiny pieces of plastic which eventually even plankton can eat.

So once they get into like fish plankton, get into the food system, it's horrific. There's

dolphins now dying because they've got such a high level of plastic toxicity in their

system that they're dying from that. One million seabirds die a year for motion plastic.

Their parents see plastic floating on the ocean and think it's fish. They pick up the plastic

and they feed it to their children and the baby's stomachs get so full of plastic that they

can't function till they die. It takes from starvation because they can't eat normal food

because their stomach is full of plastic. I know it's like really saddened just depressing

guys but it's what's happening so we need to know about it and not close our ears.

That's Zana Van Dyke and this is the Proof Podcast.

This week on the Plank Proof Podcast I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with

Zana Van Dyke at her home in Wimbledon. Zana is perhaps most well known for being a prominent

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