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Confronting Plastic Marine Debris

Confronting Plastic Marine Debris. Science & Collaboration as the Foundation for Action GEORGE H. LEONARD, PHD WPA – June 19, 2014. OUR BLUE PLANET. 1. OUR OCEAN HEALTH EQUATION. PUTTING TOO MUCH IN: MARINE DEBRIS. A PREVENTABLE PROBLEM. OCEAN POLLUTION PERSISTS.

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Confronting Plastic Marine Debris

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  1. Confronting Plastic Marine Debris Science & Collaboration as the Foundation for Action GEORGE H. LEONARD, PHD WPA – June 19, 2014

  2. OUR BLUE PLANET 1

  3. OUR OCEAN HEALTH EQUATION

  4. PUTTING TOO MUCH IN: MARINE DEBRIS A PREVENTABLE PROBLEM

  5. OCEAN POLLUTION PERSISTS • 4.5 cigarette butts/person

  6. PACKAGING IN THE OCEAN

  7. A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY Plastic beverage bottle caps from 6 remote Alaska beaches N = 561 • 8 Brands account for 50% of identifiable bottle caps

  8. PLASTICS SHOULDN’T BE IN THE OCEAN

  9. WE MUST CONFRONT THIS CHALLENGE Scientific Inquiry Plastics Production Koelmans et al., 2013 1

  10. SCIENCE: BUILDING THE FOUNDATION National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis University of California, Santa Barbara • How much enters? • Where does it go? • What are the impacts? Ryan et al. 2009 1

  11. THE FRONTIER: PLASTICS TOXICITY Rochman, 2013

  12. TRASH FREE SEAS ALLIANCE

  13. HARNESS MOMENTUM: CATALYZE ACTION Workstreams 1. Bottle Caps: Material Flow and Redesign 3. Island Intervention 2. Accelerate the Science

  14. HOLISTIC APPROACH: TRASH FREE SEAS

  15. ALL HANDS ON DECK Ocean trash is not an ocean problem. It’s a people problem. That means WE are the solution. George H. Leonard, PhD gleonard@oceanconservancy.org @GeorgeHLeonard 1

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