Jo Ruxton is the founder and director of Plastic Oceans UK; a non-profit dedicated to educating people on the perils of a plastic polluted ocean.
A Plastic Ocean is an iTunes and Netflix chart-topping documentary designed to make the public more ocean literate. Though it was released four years ago, it continues to make waves in the environment debate.
Jo produced the film as a result of seeing, first hand, how plastics and pollutants damage the ocean, and in turn damage us. She started the marine programme when she worked for the WWF; she pushed for conservation documentaries to be made whilst at the BBC. Now, after years of being told that people “aren’t interested in conservation,” Jo is making people listen to the ocean - whether they want to hear it or not.
Topics include: ocean literacy, funding, climate cynicism, plastic intelligence, the youth's passion, and not taking no for an answer,
This is Jo Ruxton’s Rocket Fuel.
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