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EPA Aquatic Trash Prevention Compendium
ByEditor May 24, 2016July 25, 2025

Aquatic Trash Prevention Great Practices Compendium – The Mid-Atlantic States https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-11/documents/trash_free_waters_great_practices_mid-atlantic_final_10-30-15.pdf 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,…

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Trash Free Seas Alliance
ByEditor May 24, 2016July 25, 2025

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,…

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International | Organizations

UN Trash Free Waters
ByEditor May 12, 2016July 25, 2025

https://www.unep.org/cep/trash-free-waters-initiative-caribbean

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Green Seas
ByEditor May 12, 2016

http://www.greenseas.org/

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Campaigns | International

Boomerang Alliance – Australia
ByEditor May 11, 2016May 11, 2016

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,…

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Education | Organizations | Research

Plastic Ocean – Captain Charles Moore
ByEditor May 5, 2016June 17, 2025

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…

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Europe | Foundations

Plastic Soup Foundation
ByEditor May 5, 2016May 5, 2016

Plastic does not belong in the ocean The contamination of the oceans by plastics is an added problem to global warming, acidification and overfishing. The oceans form 72% of the earth’s surface and are our main suppliers of oxygen. Plastic pollution is therefore a serious threat to earth’s vital ecosystem, especially because plastic does not…

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Campaigns | Organizations

Mermaids – Ocean Clean Wash
ByEditor May 5, 2016May 5, 2016

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…

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National Resource Defense Council
ByEditor May 5, 2016July 25, 2025

Oceans help feed the world, provide a living for millions of people, and are home to most of the life on the planet. NRDC works to protect our seas from pollution and exploitation. We help implement laws that allow overfished species to rebound, and we fight to protect coastal communities from offshore drilling. We work…

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Research | Education

5 Gyres
ByEditor May 5, 2016July 21, 2025

S.E.A. Change – Science. Education. Activism. 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/

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