Cuttlefish with school of plastic by Madeleine Culp. Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic waste escapes into the oceans from coastal nations. Snorkelling at Camp Cove recently, I saw many different pieces of plastic. Some looked like they had just joined their new watery home, whilst others looked as though they had been there for so long, they almost belonged. They mimicked organic shapes in the water and reacted to the changing tides like jelly fish swaying on the ebb and flow of currents. It made me wonder; how long will it take until we can’t distinguish between organic sea life and aquatic pieces of plastic? Despite their small size, the schooling plastic pieces take up the majority of the space of my drawing. All spun slightly differently but uniform. To express the insipidness of the tiny pieces of plastic I drew them with less pressure on the pen, hoping that people might have to lean closer to the drawing to figure out what they were. The cuttlefish, a symbol of intelligence and adaptability, floats in the centre of this school of plastic pieces, unable to change to fight this overwhelming plastic invasion from the alien world of land.