'Plastic is literally everywhere': the epidemic attacking Australia's oceans

'It never breaks down and goes away,' say scientists struggling to understand the impact of widespread pollutionWhile heading down the Brisbane river, Jim Hinds once pulled aboard a drunken half-naked man just seconds from "going down for the last time".But on this day, like most other days for Hinds, it's back to the horribly predictable as he launches his boat into the Nerang river on Queensland's Gold Coast. Continue reading...