What Will Future Generations Think of Us?

A beach clean in Orkney led to the collection of items for a museum. Hugh Williamson, BBC Radio Ordinary joined the group and heard from an archaeologist. The idea was that all these bottle tops and shotgun cartridges in small bits of plastic might be in a museum at that point because they'd all been found stashed together as some buried treasure somewhere. They got real value whether it was symbolic or economic. That's going to be circulating in the oceans for as long as it takes for the plastics to break down into things that we can't see anymore but they're not going to go away.