Oceans of Plastic Pollution.m4v

Crowd of more than 220 seem to enjoy the Oceans of Plastic Pollution--Eyewitness Account by Bonnie Monteleone Bonnie Monteleone, ocean plastic researcher and graduate student at the University of North Carolina--Wilmington, at the Tara Theater Conference Center, Litchfield/Pawleys Island, Thursday night, April 15. Monteleone says she boarded the Atlantic Explorer Research Vessel in July last year and later discovered plastic particulates, like that found in the Pacific, in the Sargasso Sea of the Atlantic Ocean--destination for baby sea turtles, who instinctively head there after hatching on east coast United States beaches. Marine trash, mainly plastic, kills more than a million seabirds and 100,000 mammals and sea turtles each year. That's according to the United Nations who report that plastic bags, bottle tops and polystyrene foam from fast food, are often found in the stomachs of dead dolphins, sea lions, sea turtles and fish.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Capt. Charles Moore
• Plastic Pollution
• Sea Turtles
• Sargasso Sea
• Atlantic Ocean
• Great Pacific Garbage Patch