Fashion produces staggering amounts of plastic pollution, negatively impacting the majority of the world’s seas. Issues of plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean have become especially urgent, with well over a million square kilometers of plastic and microplastic waste swirling in what has been named the Great Pacific Ocean Patch. This has social implications too as Western countries attempt to shift blame to developing countries while simultaneously relying on them for manufacturing, which has high environmental costs. However, recent legislative and technological developments give us reason to hope things may shift in the right direction.