More Resources

• NOAA Marine Debris Program Educational Materials
• EPA Trash Free Waters Program

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• EPA: Waste – What You Can Do
• Clallam County Resources

Ideas For Teachers

• California: Waves, Wetlands, and Watersheds (grades 3- 8)
• Cousteau Ocean Adventures: Debris Dilemma (grades 5-8)
• National Marine Sanctuaries Education Resources
• NOAA: Marine Debris – Games & Activities for Kids of All Ages
• NOAA: Protect Our Ocean Activity Book (grades K-3)
• 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

• Valuing Plastics: The Business Case for Measuring, Managing and Disclosing Plastic Use in the
  Consumer Goods Industry
• Ocean Conservancy: Working for Clean Beaches and Clean Water
• Algalita North Pacific Sub-tropical Gyre Exploration
• Interagency Report on Marine Debris
• United Nations Marine Debris Study

Additional Marine Debris Links

• Algalita Marine Research Foundation
• Project Kaisei
• Story of Stuff
• United Nations Site on Marine Debris
• West Coast Governor’s Alliance on Ocean Health

Understanding Our Own Coast

• Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
• Olympic National Park
• Washington State Parks