A Message in a Bottle

“Sitting at the top of the shore was a clear plastic bottle containing a rolled up piece of paper with sellotape wrapped intensely around the screw-top. I had just found a message in a bottle”.
Phoebe Jackson recounts an exciting discovery made on a trip to the Isles of Scilly, but it points to a global problem: plastic pollution. She discusses the implications of her treasure in an increasingly polluted international climate.