Learn what we can do to save our oceans

Join us Sunday to meet Anna Cummins of Algalita Marine Research and discuss lifestyle changes we can all make now to reduce the problems caused by plastic pollution in our oceans.

The Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF), in partnership with Livable Legacy will conduct the first comprehensive global study on plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. For over ten years, AMRF has been recognized as an authority on the study of plastic pollution in the North Pacific Gyre. Since Algalita’s first published paper in 1999, the organization has documented a twofold increase in the density of plastic particles in the North Pacific, as well as alarming new evidence of plastic in the food chain through ingestion by marine wildlife. There is however a lack of research and information on plastic pollution in the gyres of the North and South Atlantic, the South Pacific, or the Indian Ocean.

With two upcoming expeditions to the North and South Atlantic Gyres, and a “travel trawl” program lending research equipment to other vessels of opportunity, the 5 gyres project will collect global data on plastic marine debris, and will establish a clearinghouse for information on plastic pollution worldwide, through the 5 gyres website. The goal is to bring the issue of plastic pollution to a wider audience, and engage the public in solutions.