WASHINGTON COAST CLEANUP: APRIL 21, 2012!

Our annual, coast-wide beach cleanup will be on April 21, 2012. Signup today to help save your favorite beach from household plastics, lost fishing gear, and other kinds of ocean trash that washes up on our Pacific beaches and harms our coastal wildlife.

Bring all of your family, friends and neighbors, too! Download our flyer and post around your community. Our beaches and coastal wildlife need all the help you can muster!

WHAT IS MARINE DEBRIS & WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT?

Marine debris is trash that somehow ends up in the ocean. Recognize this plastic water bottle? It could be the one you threw away several months ago - not at the beach, but at your home! It just blew out of your garbage, landed in a nearby waterway, and floated out to the coast. Now it's poisoning sea otters.

Or maybe a commercial fishing boat lost some gear in one of our notorius winter storms. Now it's out there damaging our coastal fisheries, pointlessly killing everything that gets caught.

No matter where you live or what kind of work you do, marine debris is your problem. Learn more and use our resources today.

WHEN CAN WE EXPECT TSUNAMI DEBRIS?

The enormous quantities of marine debris generated by Japan's tsunami disaster of 2011 naturally left many in Washington State wondering when it would start washing up on our shores and whether to be concerned about any unusal hazards. Learn more here.