Plastics in the
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Plastic in the Sea - Paul Goettlich / Living Nutrition 5oct2005

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• Ghost Nets: Ireland to Hunt Nightmare Fishing Nets in North Atlantic - Agence France Presse 18may2008
• Plastic Trash in the Ocean as Far as One Can See: Feds Want to Survey, Possibly Clean Up Vast Garbage Pit in Pacific - San Francisco Chronicle 30oct2007
• Danger Feared from Chemicals Getting into Bay: They Come From the Stuff Put On Your Body and Used to Clean Your House - San Francisco Chronicle 11jul2007
• Plague of Plastic Chokes the Seas: On Midway Atoll, 40% of albatross chicks die, their bellies full of trash - LA Times 2aug2006
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  • Dark Tides, Ill Winds: With sickening regularity, toxic algae blooms are invading coastal waters - LA Times 1aug2006
  • Sentinels Under Attack: Toxic algae that poison the brain have caused strandings and mass die-offs of marine mammals - LA Times 31jul2006
  • A Primeval Tide of Toxins: Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms - LA Times 30jul2006

• Hawaii: Giant Patch of Ocean Debris Carries Plastic Ghost Nets, Trash Onto Island Shores - Honolulu Advertiser 13feb2006

• Ghostnets lost or abandoned fishing gear drifting in ocean continuing to catch fish turtles, and sea birds - NOAA / ESRL / PSD 3apr2005

• Manila: Plastic Trash Washes into Oceans, Endangering Marine Life -  Manila Times 29mar2005

• Trashed: Across the Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere -  Natural History v.112, n.9, Nov03

• A Dying Sea: Gulf Marine Life, Birds Fight Losing Battle Against Pollution, People - Naples Daily News (Florida) 3oct03

• Drifting Rubber Duckies Chart Oceans of Plastic  - Christian Science Monitor 31jul03

• Origins and Biological Accumulation of Small Plastic Particles in Fur-seal Scats from Macquarie Island - Ambio Vol. XXXII, No. 6, 2003

• Rubber Duckies, Sneakers, Umbrella Handles Expected to Wash Up on Beaches This Summer  - ABC.com 14jul03

• Generation and Recovery of Plastics 1960-1995 - Graph / AMRF 2003

• How Sneakers, Toys and Hockey Gear Help Ocean Science  - CNN 28may03

• Plastic in the Plankton - Osgood File / CBS Radio Network 24dec02

• Algalita Marine Research Foundation Gets $482,000 Grant: California Grants Research Funds To Local Pollution Fighter - The Log 27nov02

• NOAA Teams End Hawaiian Island Cleanup  - AP 22nov02

• Plastic Invades Ocean - KGO-TV 12nov02

• Trashing the Oceans with Plastic  - US News & World Report 4nov02

• Plastic is Drastic: World's Largest 'Landfill' is in the Middle of the Ocean - Capt. Charles Moore / AMRF 1nov02

• Tales of Plastic in the Ocean - Capt. Charles Moore / AMRF 1nov02

• California and the World Ocean Presentation to the Marine Debris Panel -  Capt. Charles Moore / AMRF 30oct02

• Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Plastic Turning Vast Area of Ocean into Ecological Nightmare - Capt. Charles Moore / Santa Barbara News-Press 27oct02

• Rafts of Plastic Debris Stretching over Miles of Open Ocean Discovered by Research Vessel Captain Press Release 22oct02

• Organotin Pollution in Deep-Sea Fish from the Northwestern Mediterranean - Environ. Sci. Technol. 15oct02

• Endocrine Effects of Marine Plastics on Kelp Bass - Baker, M.E., Moore, C.J. and Andrady, A. 2002

• 50,000 Nike Tennis Shoes Circling the Globe: Some Wash Up on Beach -  Daily Herald 18jun01

• Message in a Bottle: Curtis Ebbesmeyer Traces the Flow of Ocean Currents  - Smithsonian Magazine Jul01

• Plastic Outnumbers Plankton in N. Pacific: Tiny Bits of Plastic Harm Oceangoing Birds and Wildlife  - Orange County Register 21apr01

• A comparison of plastic and plankton in the North Pacific central gyre - Marine Pollution Bulletin Dec01 [Capt. Charles Moore/Algalita Marine Research]

• "Synthetic Sea: Plastic in the Ocean"  - Transcription of video from Algalita Marine Research Foundation 2001

  • Our Synthetic Sea: 20-minute QuickTime video about the fact that there's more plastic than plankton in the oceans - Algalita Marine Research Foundation / MacDonald Productions 2004

• PBDE Flame retardant found in Great Lakes Salmon  -  ENN 27feb01

• Plastic, Plastic Everywhere  - Newsletter of the Algalita Research Foundation 6sep00

• Plastics and Their Impacts in the Marine Environment Andrady, AL - Proceedings of the International Marine Debris Conference on Derelict Fishing Gear and the Ocean Environment 6aug00

• A Sea of Plastic  -  Capt. Charles Moore and Miwa Tamanaha, Pelagic Plastic Task Force Organizers 11apr01

• Scotchgard PFOS Sticks in the Environment  - Both Land and Sea  -  ENN 11apr01

• Plastic Resin Pellets as a Transport Medium for Toxic Chemicals in the Marine Environment  - Environ. Sci. Technol. 2001

• Plastics in the Oceans: 6 Pounds of Plastic per 1 Pound of Biomass  - Anon.  28mar01

• Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Prosobranch Snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the Laboratory (Abstracts) - Ecotoxicology  Dec00
     Part I: Bisphenol A and Octylphenol as Xeno-Estrogens & Part II: Triphenyltin as a Xeno-Androgen 

• Distribution of Anthropogenic and Natural Debris on the Mainland Shelf of the Southern California Bight  - Marine Pollution Bulletin 40:83-88 2000

• Abundance of polymers degrading microorganisms in a sea-based solid waste disposal site - (abstract) Journal of Basic Microbiology 2000

• Garbage Gumshoe Tracks Down Litterers -  US News 12apr99

• LEGOs and Other Floating Flotsam  - Miami Herald 17may98

• Plastic ingestion by Laysan Albatross chicks on Sand Island, Midway Atoll, in 1994 and 1995. -  In Albatross Biology and Conservation 1997

• Plastic Pellets in the Aquatic Environment: Sources and Recommendations - USEPA,  Office of Water (WH-556F) EPA 842/B-92/010 Dec92

• Plastic Ingestion and PCBs in Seabirds: Is There a Relationship?  - Marine Pollution Bulletin 1apr88

• Be sure to visit the website of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation  !!

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