Marine Debris Resources

Understanding Marine Debris

Our friends in the NOAA Marine Debris Program have created some wonderful resources to help everyone understand marine debris and how to prevent it from spoiling our ocean and beaches. Here are a few:

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Marine Debris 101
Brochures, Fact Sheets, Posters, Guidebooks
EPA: Sources of Marine Debris

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

EPA: Waste - What You Can Do

Ideas For Teachers

AdCouncil: Keep Oceans Clean Campaign for Kids
California: Waves, Wetlands, and Watersheds (grades 3- 8)
Cousteau Ocean Adventures: Debris Dilemma (grades 5-8)
National Marine Sanctuaries Education Resources
NOAA: Marine Debris 101 - Games & Activities for Kids of All Ages
NOAA: Protect Our Ocean Activity Book (grades K-3)
Northwestern Hawaii Multi-Agency Education Project (grades 3-6)
Northwestern Hawaii Multi-Agency Education Project (grades 4-12)
Splash It, Don't Trash It! (grades 6-8)
U.S.F. Tampa Bay Beach Buddies
Waste-free Lunches - Lunch Activities

Notable Press Coverage

CNN on "Project Kaisei: Voyage to Clean Up the Plastic Vortex
Seattle Post-Intelligencer on marine debris in Puget Sound
Oprah on the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"
BestLife on "Our Plastic Ocean"
Bloomberg on "Plastic Mistaken for Plankton"
LA Times on marine debris.
New York Times on "Sea of Trash: Pollution in the World's Oceans"
SF Chronicle on marine debris
VBS.tv on "Toxic Garbage Island"
PBS on "Jean-Michel Cousteau: Trash on the Spin Cycle"

Marine Debris Studies

Ocean Conservancy: Rising Tide of Marine Debris
Algalita North Pacific Sub-tropical Gyre Exploration
Interagency Report on Marine Debris
Algalita Plastic Debris Report
United Nations Marine Debris Study

Additional Marine Debris Links

Algalita Marine Research Foundation
Plastic Debris: Rivers to Sea Project
Project Kaisei
Story of Stuff
United Nations Site on Marine Debris
US Environmental Protection Agency
West Coast Governor's Agreement on Ocean Health

Understanding Our Own Coast

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
Olympic National Park
Washington State Parks