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
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,…
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION MARINE DEBRIS PROGRAM (NOAA) The NOAA Marine Debris Program is the U.S. Federal government’s lead for addressing marine debris. The NOAA Marine Debris Program has developed a strategic plan to help us succeed in continuing to combat marine debris in the coming years. Read more… The Marine Debris Clearinghouse is…
Plastic Ocean is a pivotal work co-authored by Captain Charles Moore and Cassandra Phillips, first published in 2011. It chronicles Moore’s groundbreaking discovery in 1997 of the vast plastic accumulation in the North Pacific Gyre, an area now commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The book delves into Moore’s subsequent expeditions aboard his…
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…
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…
Plastic Microbeads: Ban The Bead! Microplastics may be small, but they’re causing big problems for our environment and our health. These tiny pieces of plastic used in personal care products are designed to go down the drain and into our lakes, rivers, and oceans — by the billions every day. They absorb toxins in the…