Videos

• Ocean Today’s Trash Talk Special Feature
• How Much Plastic is the Ocean? It’s Okay To Be Smart by PBS
• What Is Marine Debris? | A Cartoon Crash Course with Jim Toomey
• Two Minutes on Oceans w/ Jim Toomey; Marine Debris
• TEDEd: The Nurdles’ Quest for Ocean Domination
• TEDEd: A Brief History of Plastic
• Earth’s Ekko—Together We Can Make A World of DIfference

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Articles

Scholastic News

• Saving the Sea
• A Sea of Plastic
• Piles of Plastic
• How Plastic Is Trashing the Planet

Scholastic Science News

• An Ocean of Plastic
• Plastic or the Planet?

Science News for Students

• Food-like Smell on Plastic May Lure Seabirds to Eat It 
• Tiny Plastic Big Problem
• Plastic Trash Rides Ocean Currents to the Arctic
• Swirling Seas of Plastic Trash
• Plastics at Sea Creates Raft of Problems
• Plastic Trash Travels Up to Arctic Waters
• Polluting Microplastics Harm Both Animals and Ecosystems
• Help for a World Drowning in Microplastics

DOGO News

• How the Increasing Plastic Debris In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch MayAlter The Ocean’s Ecosystem
• The Once Pristine Henderson Island Is Now Covered With Plastic Waste

Newsela

• If You Dropped Plastic in the Ocean, Where Does It End Up?
• Plastics Found In Stomachs of Deepest Sea Creatures
• Evidence Shows Microplastics are Harmful to Zooplankton
• Yummy Scent of Some Plastic Trash Makes Fish Think It’s Food, Study Finds
• Tiny Pacific Island Has No Humans but Gets Much of World’s Plastic Trash

ReadWorks

• What a Dump

National Geographic Kids

Wonderopolis

• Where is the World’s Largest Pile of Trash?
• How Long Does It Take Plastic to Decompose?

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Infographics

How Long Until It’s Gone?

Marine Debris is Everyone’s Problem

Sources of Marine Litter

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Fact Sheets

What is Marine Debris?

What Are the Garbage Patches?