Resolve to Fight Marine Plastics
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Uploaded by seaturtlesforever on Apr 22, 2011
This film was created by Sea Turtles Forever board members, Todd Lippold, Marc and Rachel Ward to illustrate quantities of contamination in a tropical marine foraging area in Costa Rica. Over the course of the survey we removed 14,146 items of marine plastic debris from the reef at Lagartillo and 5500 individual sections or " balls" of monofiliment line. Make sure and veiw " A Piece of the Gyre" too ---- our NW survey.
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Cleaning sea turtle beaches is so important, great work!
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The conditions present at Lagartillo make it a natural " collection zone" for marine debris. By focusing research and recovery efforts there a big impact can be made with even modest resources. The fact that Lagartillo is an extremely significant reef foraging area makes it a top candidate for this kind of effort.
seaturtlesforever 9 months ago
Yes --- fibers can work, especially for the monofiliment. Everytime we collect a peice of carpet it is full of monofiliment peices that have attached at sea. There are ways to do this clean-up and optimize efficiency.
seaturtlesforever 10 months ago
You can grab allot of debris from the beach that would otherwise return to the Ocean on a big tide and large surf. Like the plastic spoon, debris is constantly being release that has been trapped in the reef for maybe years -- long enough for coral to grow around it. We see many items that have become imbedded in the coral and then released. We need to take the next step and clean the debris directly from the deep places on the reef, that hold deposits of monofiliment, in turtle foraging zones.
seaturtlesforever 10 months ago