Marine Debris and Plastics Links

Beach Clean Ups 
COASTSWEEP

Fishing Gear Recovery
NFWF Fishing For Energy
NOAA Marine Debris Program
Orly Genger, Artist
Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation
Net Your Problem

Education
5 Gyres Institute
From The Bow Seat
Balloons Blow
Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment

Mass Green Network
Ocean Conservancy
Plastic Oceans
The Rozalia Project

Recent Press
Regional Collaboration to Address Marine Debris in the Gulf of Maine (recorded webinar, Jan. 30, 2024) 
‘Ghost Gear’ piles up in the Gulf of Maine amid plastic onslaught on oceans (PBS NewsHour, Sept. 19, 2023)
Letter to the Editor: “Have you seen this ‘trash?’ (Block Island Times, July 21, 2023)
Collaborations for a Cleaner Ocean (Lower Cape TV, July 19, 2023)
Eye on Earth: Cleaning lobster gear from the shores of Cuttyhunk Island (WBZ, April 27, 2023)
Report Highlights Potential Marine Debris Threat to Gulf of Maine Birds (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 4/19/2022)
Mysterious Yellow Tubing Washes Up Onto Cape Shores (Lower Cape TV, March 4, 2022)
Solving A Plastic Pollution Mystery (Plastic News, 2/23/2022)
Mysterious Yellow Plastic Strands on Cape Cod Beaches Lead to Explosive Revelation(Cape Cod Times, 2/18/2022)
CCS Teams Scour Half a Ton of Trash From Back Shore (Provincetown Independent, 10/6/21)
An Afternoon with the Sirens of 114 Central Avenue (The Cornell Daily Sun, 10/4/21)
Marine Debris: A Data Story (Lower Cape TV, 11/22/21)
Shore Things: What we leave behind at the beach (WCVB Boston)
The Sunday Journal: Interview with Laura Ludwig (Cape Cod Broadcasting)

In April 2020, 163 organizations (including CCS), companies, and public officials signed the THIS LETTER generated by the organization Upstream Solutions, respectfully requesting the US Dept. of Health and Human Services to dismiss calls by the Plastics Industry Association to promote single-use plastic products as safer than other materials in response to the pandemic. Their request lacked sound scientific evidence, and marine debris researchers, advocates and stakeholders urged the Director to consider scientific data showing that increasing single-use plastics would not provide added protection against COVID-19 for the US population — and it would accelerate the human health and environmental impacts of climate change and plastic pollution.

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