Dutch Prototype Clean-up Boom Brings Pacific Plastics Solution A Step Closer
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/22/dutch-prototype-clean-up-boom-brings-pacific-plastics-solution-a-step-closer
Is There More Plastic Than Fish In The Sea?
Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Design News, 4/22/2016 The amount of plastic in the ocean just keeps growing. If things don’t change, by 2025 the oceans will contain one metric ton of plastic for every three metric tons of fish. By 2050 plastic will outweigh fish entirely. That’s the conclusion of a report by…
The Ocean Cleanup
The Ocean Cleanup is developing world’s first feasible method to rid the oceans of plastic. The Ocean Cleanup’s goal is to extract, prevent, and intercept plastic pollution by initiating the largest cleanup in history. The Ocean Cleanup Plan So Crazy It Just Might Work The largest marine cleanup project in history is set to launch…
EPA Trash Free Waters
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/ocean-dumping/flow-trash-free-waters-newsletter https://blog.epa.gov/blog/?s=trash+free+waters https://www3.epa.gov/region9/marine-debris/zerotrash.html
EPA Aquatic Trash Prevention Compendium
Aquatic Trash Prevention Great Practices Compendium – The Mid-Atlantic States https://www.epa.gov/ocean-dumping/aquatic-trash-prevention-great-practices-compendium-mid-atlantic-states Ocean Dumping Management The Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA), also known as the Ocean Dumping Act, regulates the transportation and dumping of any material into ocean waters. The MPRSA prohibits or restricts ocean dumping that would adversely affect human health, welfare, amenities,…
Trash Free Seas Alliance
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,…
UN Trash Free Waters
http://www.unep.org/gpa/news/Trashfreewaters.asp
Green Seas
http://www.greenseas.org/
Boomerang Alliance – Australia
On the 21st February 2015, after a persistent campaign by the Boomerang Alliance, the NSW government committed to introducing a container deposit scheme (CDS) by mid-2017. The Premier Mike Baird announced he wanted the best practise CDS in the world. For the thousands of people and passionate communities which had lobbied their members of parliament,…
Plastic Ocean – Captain Charles Moore
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…