Marine Debris - Learn and Help

For over 20 years, the Ocean Conservancy has been organizing the International Coast Cleanup, held the third Saturday of every September.

As they often state:

Trash doesn't fall from the sky,
it falls from our hands.

What can you do:

• Review their 10 things you can do to stop marine debris.
• Read A Rising Tide of Ocean Debris and What We Can Do About It. presenting data recorded by nearly 400,000 volunteers in 104 countries in the September 2008 cleanup.
  
• Read their Pocket Guide to Marine Debris (35 pages)
  

Source: Ocean Conservancy