UN Trash Free Waters
https://www.unep.org/cep/trash-free-waters-initiative-caribbean
https://www.unep.org/cep/trash-free-waters-initiative-caribbean
Ocean Conservancy’s Trash Free Seas Alliance® unites industry, science and nonprofit leaders who share a common goal for a healthy ocean free of trash. The Alliance provides the only forum of its kind focused on identifying opportunities for cross-sector solutions that drive action and foster innovation. Central to the Alliance’s work is advancing new knowledge,…
Algalita is a pioneering environmental nonprofit that’s been at the forefront of the fight against plastic pollution for nearly three decades. They were the first to uncover and publicize the massive accumulation of plastic in the Pacific Ocean—what’s now widely called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Since that discovery, they’ve focused on reshaping how the…
Under Construction http://www.cleanseascoalition.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=60 Leslie Tamminen at leslie.tamminen@gmail.com
Did you know you are contributing to marine pollution by washing your clothes? Every wash of synthetic fabrics or composed fabrics (like cotton/polyester) discharges plastic fibers less than a millimeter in length. Wastewater treatment plants let them through. Fibers found on shorelines match with material used in clothing; polyester, acrylic and nylon. The impact of…
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…