“We often talk about the Stone Age, the Ice Age, and the Bronze Age and people are starting to revert to this age as the ‘Plastics Age’. It’s in everything.”

We’re surrounded by plastic, discarded and forgotten and having been built to last forever, plastic is finally starting to show its negative implications in society.

It’s hard realization to come to, but plastic is probably going to be the future fossil.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch — Approximately 1500 nautical miles from the Pacific shore, this patch was discovered by Captain Charles Moore.

What people don’t seem to realize is that there is a solution. Plastic is basically a “resource to be mined, waiting to be profited from." Despite the damaging circumstances that our environment is in, humans have the ability to overcome this damage and adapt to the situation.

With 288 million tons of plastic annually made, there is really no need to produce more plastic. Instead, the plastics that have already been made can be altered through what is called Bionic Yarn.

By turning low grade plastic (typically found in items such as plastic water bottles) into a high profile material like yarn and fabric, there is a solution to addressing the issue of plastic found in oceans.

Pharrell Williams has taken advantage of this opportunity to combine activism and fashion by curating a project called G-Star Raw: Raw for the Oceans in which they replace up to 35% of fabric with bionic yarn.

People often regard fashion as shallow and vain, but through bionic yarn there is the opportunity to represent transformation and inspire the fashion industry as well.