I was vacationing in Thailand a year ago, and was snorkeling in this beautiful, emerald green lagoon in koh phi phi. I suddenly felt something brush up against

I was vacationing in Thailand a year ago, and was snorkeling in this beautiful, emerald green lagoon in koh phi phi. I suddenly felt something brush up against me from behind... and it was a small pile of floating plastic trash. Really upset me that someone would disrespect such a uniquely beautiful place. Other tour boats were just dumping their plastic waste in the ocean, because it was easy, the ocean is big, and there were no repercussions to them. It's just a small example of a much larger problem... that very few people think about what happens to their plastic waste, or the amount of it that they throw away each year. It doesn't decompose, so we're filling huge landfills with it, and at least some of it ends up in the ocean (through bad actors, natural disasters, or polluting water that feeds into the ocean). Eventually we'll do something about the problem, but by that point we'll have an ocean full of 200 year old plastic. It seems like global tragedy of the commons problems are among the hardest to solve.