Resources for Learning About 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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• What is Marine Debris?
• 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