Wine drinkers in Britain have helped remove the equivalent of 10 million plastic bottles from one of the world’s most polluted seas, with eco-entrepreneurs aiming to remove a billion by the end of the decade.
Justin Moran and former Aussie rules footballer turned wine-maker Richie Vandenberg visited Indonesia to see their money raised from sales of their wine making inroads into the daunting issue. The pair, who the PA news agency visited to see the operation in action, fell silent when they visited an island made entirely of waste, a few miles from Jakarta.
Crunching in wellies through what seemed like millions of plastic bottles, cups, shopping bags, straws, toys and food wrappers, Mr Moran, 48, said: “We are literally trashing the ocean with plastic, it is confronting and overwhelming, it is an epic crisis.”
