Clean Seas Coalition
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Leslie Tamminen at leslie.tamminen@gmail.com
Under Construction
http://www.cleanseascoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=60
Leslie Tamminen at leslie.tamminen@gmail.com
500 million straws are used and discarded every day in the US alone. That’s 175 billion a year filtering into landfills and littering the oceans. Join a global movement to eliminate plastic drinking straws from our landfills, our streams, our oceans, and our beaches! The Last Plastic Straw strives to educate the public about the absurdity of…
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…
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