This is a video from Smithsonian Museum of Natural History's Ocean Portal website. It shows a diver encountering (close up) a floating garbage patch in Belize.
Boyan Slat, a 24-year-old Dutch innovator first became passionate about cleaning the oceans when he went scuba diving at age 16 and saw more plastic bags than fish. Learn about how he is trying to solve that problem.
The National Geographic offers these photos of garbage from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, how it was discovered and a discussion about who is responsible for the clean up.
Watch to learn about the Great Pacific garbage patch, located in the North Pacific Ocean. How are these garbage patches, where marine debris has gathered, formed?
Nurdles are the tiny, factory-made pellets that form the raw material for every plastic product that we use, from toys to toothbrushes. Kim Preshoff details the nurdles' quest for ocean domination, shedding light on the particular features that allow these pervasive polluters to persist for entire generations. Related Lesson
In this 7 minute video, Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation describes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an endless floating waste of plastic trash. He details the growing problem of plastic debris in our seas. Related Lesson
