confronting plastic marine debris science & collaboration as the foundation for action george h....
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Confronting Plastic Marine DebrisScience & Collaboration as the Foundation for Action
GEORGE H. LEONARD, PHDWPA – June 19, 2014
OUR BLUE PLANET
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OUR OCEAN HEALTH EQUATION
PUTTING TOO MUCH IN: MARINE DEBRIS
A PREVENTABLE PROBLEM
OCEAN POLLUTION PERSISTS 4.5 cigarette butts/person
4.5 cigarette butts/person
PACKAGING IN THE OCEAN
A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
8 Brands account for 50% of identifiable bottle caps
N = 561
Plastic beverage bottle caps from 6 remote Alaska beaches
PLASTICS SHOULDN’T BE IN THE OCEAN
WE MUST CONFRONT THIS CHALLENGE
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Koelmans et al., 2013
Scientific Inquiry Plastics Production
SCIENCE: BUILDING THE FOUNDATION
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• How much enters?
• Where does it go?
• What are the impacts?
National Center for Ecological Analysis and SynthesisUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
THE FRONTIER: PLASTICS TOXICITY
Rochman, 2013
TRASH FREE SEAS ALLIANCE
HARNESS MOMENTUM: CATALYZE ACTION
Workstreams
1. Bottle Caps: Material Flow and Redesign
2. Accelerate the Science
3. Island Intervention
HOLISTIC APPROACH: TRASH FREE SEAS
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ALL HANDS ON DECK
George H. Leonard, [email protected]
@GeorgeHLeonard
Ocean trash is not an ocean problem.
It’s a people problem.
That means WE are the solution.