Learn about the solutions POP is implementing to increase outreach, research and education about plastic ocean pollution.
Monteleone being interviewed by director Craig Leeson aboard RV Tui Tai, Fiji.
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In 2009, former BBC underwater producer, Jo Ruxton, set her sights on filming a full-length, major motion picture on plastics in the marine environment. Her dream will be realized this spring when A Plastic Ocean hits the silver screen. Plastic Ocean Project is proud to have contributed to this project sharing our expertise while filming in Fiji in 2012. Also highlighted in the film will be video documented evidence of plastic ingestion at the micro zooplankton level done at University of North Carolina Wilmington with our executive director, Bonnie Monteleone, Susanne Brander, PhD. Rob Condon, PhD. Alison Taylor, PhD. and undergraduate students research. The film has premiered around the world, a top seller on iTunes, and is now available on Netflix.
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After seven years of encouraging Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and no sign of our plastic consumption reducing, we have identified a temporary solution until we can kick the plastic habit. PK Clean and POP, Inc. have partnered into a hybrid project engaging non-‐profit and industry together to solve one of biggest environmental issues of our day. Targeting islands and coastal communities as prime locations to address plastic marine debris, POP reached out to PK Clean to help take this technology to these regions, especially islands, in an effort to reduce discarded plastics and it’s potential to do harm. Lab scale tests of ocean samples provide promising results that plastics to oil serves as a means of reducing the risks of biota plastic ingestion and/or entanglement. Targeting islands for this technology will not only turn landfill-bound plastic waste into valuable oil, but it will also reduce the carbon footprint of having oil sent to these islands. Furthermore, because the plastics are low in sulfur, they represent reduced greenhouse emission compared to virgin crude.
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We are the proud fiscal sponsors of plastictides.org/Plastic Tides. These are Cornell University graduates, who not only circumnavigated paddle boarding around Bermuda to bring awareness to plastic marine debris but also paddled up the Erie Canal from Ithaca to Albany, NC in the snow! Why? These young men want to get NY's Capitol to ban the micro bead. Currently this team is working with students in Bermuda teaching ocean conservation.
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On a global scale, POP, Inc. is joining Reach the World and Beautiful Nation educating potentially a million students from around the world as they travel the globe bringing ocean science into the classroom. Won't you join us by adding your school to the network of schools from around the world, individually following along, volunteer, and by making a donation to keep education on marine debris moving.
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POP, Inc. joins UNCW educating undergraduates about plastic marine debris using our open-ocean samples collected from various aquatic regions in the world. We supervise lab research instrumentation, encourage scientific method, and help incubate progressive solutions to plastic pollution. Currently we are in need of a new analytical balance as ours has broken. Your contribution can help us finish our N. Atlantic Gyres samples from fall 2014.
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Hope Spots are areas of the ocean that are vital to marine life. The Sylvia Earle Alliance and Mission Blue have worked to create dozens of Hope Spots all over the ocean. Through intense advocacy and awareness efforts in these unique places, they fight to create formally protected marine protected areas. We hope by establishing a Hope Spot in Cape Hatteras we will increase awareness and advocacy for this unique and critical ocean area and be an influential step in gaining formal protection.
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