People living along rivers and coastlines in Southeast Asia and in other communities around the world are among the most impacted by plastic pollution, even though they did not create it. We need to ship the plastic monster back to where it came from — multinational corporations headquartered in Europe and North America. While these companies say they will tackle the problem, most of them actually have plans to increase their overall production of plastic! Meanwhile over 90% of the plastics ever produced have not been recycled. By 2050, it is predicted that there will be 12 billion tonnes of plastic waste in natural environments!