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Raising awareness and taking action to help solve the plastic pollution problem through art, education, and advocacy.
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For Educators

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

Articles

Scholastic News

  • Oceans of Trash
  • Tsunami Debris Washes Up in Oregon
  • Floating Junkyard

Scholastic Science News

  • An Ocean of Plastic

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

DOGO News

  • How the Increasing Plastic Debris In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch MayAlter The Ocean’s Ecosystem

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

Wonderopolis

  • Where is the World’s Largest Pile of Trash?

Infographics

How Long Until It’s Gone?

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Marine Debris is Everyone’s Problem

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Sources of Marine Litter

Sources of Marine Debris

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Plastics Breakdown


Fact Sheets

What is Marine Debris?

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What Are the Garbage Patches?

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    Circularity
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    "It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more." —How the Grinch Stole Christmas
    Rudolf the Plastic Reindeer
    Wreaths are popular holiday decorations that also have a variety of symbolic meanings. Some believe that the circularity represents eternity with no beginning and no end.
    The hand prints that are found as part of prehistoric cave art were created by blowing paint around hands pressed on rocks.
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    “Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it.” —Talismanist Giebra
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