What I did
I scuba-dove every day for two months to record how much garbages there is in the ocean. I worked in a team of three pro divers with various volunteers to clean the ocean floor, and we also took statistics on the garbage we found. Finally, we reported the result to the Ministry of Environment in Portugal. I gained the field’s perspective from this experience and later wrote an academic essay by combining the perspective with theoretical ideas.
Remarks
This experience was chilling. In the sense that trash we found in the ocean were dictated by everyday products like flip- flops, toothbrush, tires, tobacco, bottles and list goes on – the very product we buy on a day-to-day basis are polluting the ocean. In 2050, there will be more plastics in the ocean than fish. We need to care more for the ocean and change our lifestyle, a big part of it is making zero-waste life, and I am aspired to create one.
