We have led the effort to research aquatic plastic pollution and to find solutions for regaining a plastic-free ocean. Our mission is to empower people to become leaders in combating the global health crisis of plastic pollution. http://www.5gyres.org/
The site offers a free, five‑lesson classroom curriculum titled Winged Ambassadors: Ocean Literacy Through the Eyes of Albatross, developed in partnership with NOAA, Oikonos, and other agencies. Aimed primarily at grades 6–8 (with extensions for 9–12), the lessons use real albatross migration data, artist-scientist works, and National Geographic bolus (regurgitated food mass) imagery to explore…
Eliminating Land-based Discharges Of Marine Debris In California: A Plan of Action from The Plastic Debris Project The Plastic Debris, Rivers to Sea Project seeks to minimize the land-based discharges of marine debris. Just like ocean-based marine debris, land-based discharges of human-made debris are comprised mostly of plastics. https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/42231824/eliminating-land-based-discharges-of-marine-debris-in-california- The threat and impacts of marine…
Trash Free Waters (TFW) is a program developed by EPA with the purpose to educate, raise awareness, and encourage trash reduction in oceans and coasts. The public participants in the program include state and municipal governments, NGOs and business. https://www.epa.gov/trash-free-waters/newsletter-flow-trash-free-waters https://www.epa.gov/trash-free-waters/archive-rapids-epa-trash-free-waters-monthly-update https://www3.epa.gov/region9/marine-debris/zerotrash.html
We face many complex challenges when it comes to a clean and healthy ocean, but one problem is simple to understand: Trash. People know that trash in the water: compromises the health of humans, wildlife and the livelihoods that depend on a healthy ocean; threatens tourism and recreation, and the critical dollars they add to…
With six times more plastic than plankton, they think it smells like dinner. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has become a deadly illusion for seabirds whose survival depends on their ability to find food in the vast ocean. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre covers an area larger than Texas, swirling in a slow-motion whirlpool that…
Captain Charles Moore on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch On June 10, the Save The Albatross Coalition (a program of Zero Waste USA and a host of aligned nonprofits and institutions) hosted Captain Charles Moore for a morning with the man who found the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. He discovered it in 1997, almost by…
