Learn How Beach Cleanups Provide Info for Plastic Pollution Research

Photo by Anastasia Pantsios

Wed 7/28 @ 1PM

You’ve probably heard and read a lot about plastic pollution, about the “gyres” of plastic in the ocean and the plastic found inside fish and animals. You’ve likely seen plastic on beaches, along forest paths, in parks and along roadsides, even plastic bags hanging in trees.

Maybe if you’re really plugged into a plastic removal/remediation movement, you know about Adopt-a-Beach, a program of the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes where groups of volunteers across the Great Lakes, including Huntington Beach in Bay Village, Edgewater Beach and Mentor Headlands, hold weekend plastic clean-ups. Each year those volunteers remove more than 50,000 pounds of trash, most of it plastic, and collect data used by researchers to learn about plastic pollution.

Learn more about how they do that when Alliance for the Great Lakes hosts a webinar with Loyola University Chicago associate professor Tim Hoellein, a leading researcher on plastic pollution who has used the information Adopt-a-Beach provides in his work.

It’s free and open to all, and there will be time for questions. Register here.

 

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