Click the links below to learn more about the positive environmental changes happening in our community!
Videos:
Videos:
- WBTV- "Several Charlotte businesses ditching plastic straws" (August 27, 2018)
- Plastic Ban Starts Close to Home (July 11, 2018)
- PHOTOS: Back to School Beach Clean-up (August 14, 2018)
- WILMA'S Women to Watch Awards 2018 (October 12, 2018)
- These Charlotte restaurants and venues are dumping plastic straws. (August 15, 2018)
- Protecting our Great Lakes (August 19, 2018)
- Tough Job of Cleaning Pacific Garbage Patch to Start in September (August 14, 2018)
- UNCW Represented on Annual “Women to Watch” List (July 27, 2018)
- Plastic Ocean Project discusses ways to cut plastic use (July 29, 2018)
- Starbucks to Stop Using Disposable Plastic Straws by 2020 (July 9, 2018)
- Rochester women rallies to clean up local beaches and waterways (July 11, 2018)
- Surfriders, nonprofits kick off Clean Water Week (May 31, 2018)
- 25 Ways Cities, Companies are Going Green for Earth Day 2018 (April 20, 2018)
- North Carolina Scientists and Students Work to Combat Ocean Plastics (May 3, 2018)
- Plastic Ocean Project targets coastal areas for Hope Spot Cleanups (April 20, 2018)
- Anti-Litter Campaign Targets Straws, Plastics (April 16, 2018)
- Monteleone Recognized as a Governor's Conservation Hero for Work with Marine Pollution (September 15, 2017)
- UNCW Grad Fires Up Oil From Ocean Plastics (March 12, 2018)
- Monteleone, Scott-Pollock Win YWCA Women of Achievement Awards (March 9, 2018)
- UNCW’s Monteleone, Scott-Pollock Among YWCA Lower Cape Fear Women of Achievement Nominees (Jan 26, 2018)
- UNCW researchers find plastic in fish caught off our coast (March 7, 2018)
- How Addressing 'Eco-Genocide' Is Almost Like Spinning Straw Into Gold For This Entrepreneur (June 27, 2017)
- CoastLine: Ocean Plastic is Beyond Garbage Patches and Part of Human Food Chain (August 23, 2017)
- Eco Film Fest Review: Plastic, plastic, everywhere – and not a drop to drink (March 28, 2018)
- UNCW Researchers Among International Scientists Featured in “A Plastic Ocean” Documentary (February 11, 2016)
- YWCA HOSTS 33RD ANNUAL WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS (March 8, 2018)
- Researchers Work to Rid Oceans of Plastic (May 23, 2017)
- Researchers Look At Turning Ocean Plastic Into Fuel (January 2, 2017)
- Sam’s Field Notes: The Balloon Problem (November 30, 2017)
- Ocean conservation starts at home (July 29, 2015)
- Plastic Ocean Project shows campus eye-opening film on ocean conservation (January 31, 2017)
- New Expo 216 gallery combines art and museum elements (May 2, 2016)
- Local Artist Bonnie Monteleone to Exhibit at Beard Gallery (April 4, 2013)
- Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash (November 9, 2009)
- Composting Plan Aims to Extend Landfill’s Life (April 4, 2017)
- What’s in your beach bag? (June 10, 2015)
- Plastic Ocean Project at University of South Alabama (August 2016)
- Local Restaurants Recognized As Ocean Friendly Establishments (February 17, 2016)