#67 - Emily Penn: Ocean Explorer Researches Why Plastic Is In Your Blood
Emily Penn is a sailor, ocean advocate and founder of eXXpedition, which runs ocean-focused research missions and all-women sailing expeditions to study plastic pollution across the entire world's oceans.
In this conversation, we talk about:
How sailing from Europe to Australia and finding plastic 800 miles from civilisation changed the course of her life
Why 29 out of 35 UN-banned toxic chemicals were found in her own blood
How she traded a career in architecture for a life at sea by pitching her skills rather than her experience
Why bottled water contains more microplastics than tap water…
The skinny
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