The Plastic Ocean Project

Hurricane Florence made landfall on 9/14/18 along the NC coast, a direct hit in Wilmington, NC, where Plastic Ocean Project was founded. Here where we have been so fortunate to conduct research...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2019/01/1st-trees4trash-cleanup-on-cape-fear-dr.html

Flying across the beautiful blues of the Atlantic Ocean heading towards the Caribbean Sea, a Plastic Ocean Project team was embarking on its first trip to Puerto Rico to study the feasibility of...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2018/05/plastic2fuel-innitiative-in-puerto-rico.html

Left to right, Getro, Blada, Hannah and Annie In unity with the Christian Day of Resurrection, I feel it is timely that we share our own story of loss of life in an attempt to help those ...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2018/04/helping-haiti.html

This article was published today on the Resource Reycycling, Inc website. We appreciate the fact that they ran this story because a good percentage of what we find in the ocean IS recyclable and ...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2017/07/fishing4plastic-tournament-highlighted.html

Changing plastic pollution starts with making good choices....... While the mission of Plastic Ocean Project is to do research regarding plastics in the environment, It is also all about ...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2016/05/make-good-choices.html

From litter to art.... From Plastics to art- Plastic Ocean Project members are passionate about cleaning the environment, and re-using some of those materials to make art that raises awarenes...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2016/04/taking-our-mission-to-heart.html

"Where is all the Plastic?" On Monday night the Plastic Ocean Project, the UNCW Center for Marine Science (CMS) and Surfrider invited Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) marine debr...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2016/04/dr-kara-lavender-law-marine-debris-event.html

“Waste is a Terrible Thing to Waste” Bonnie Monteleone, Found of Plastic Ocean Project, introduces Priyanka Bakaya, founder of PK Clean  to the audience of students, faculty, local...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2016/04/waste-is-terrible-thing-to-waste-bonnie.html

Cleaning the community and spreading awareness through  outreach and education. On Wednesday, March 9, UNCW POP volunteers, Scott Davis and Danielle Gutierrez spoke to the students at ...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2016/03/community-cleanups-matter.html

Update from Lisa Rider taken from the eXXedition blog Lisa’s hand illustrated birthday card by resident  artist Stella Marina "Last night after science we celebrated my birthday with an...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/12/las-olas-grande.html

Lisa finding plastics hidden at local marina 9.15 As many of our readers might remember, Lisa Rider, President of Plastic Ocean Project 2016, is out on the Atlantic sample for Plastic Oce...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/12/where-in-world-is-lisa-rider-making.html

Plastic Ocean Project (POP) has been all over the place these last few weeks, but in a good way. Currently, POP's newly elected president, Lisa Rider, is sailing with eXXpedition  from across...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/12/out-on-open-ocean-and-into-local.html

Plastic Ocean Project goes to Capitol Hill!!   On Wednesday, November 4th, Bonnie Monteleone, Executive Director of Plastic Ocean Project, visited Capitol Hill to speak in opposition to ...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/11/capitol-hill-ocean-friendly.html

~ADVENTURES AT SEA~ Ocean activist/ eco warrior, Lisa Rider will soon be on her big adventure with   www.exxpedition.com .  As she travels the ocean blue, diving, exploring and collecting...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/11/upcoming-adventures-at-sea-success.html

THE WAR ON PLASTIC Lots of people gathered at Wrightsville Beach on Saturday, October 10 to pick up trash and debris for  New Hanover County's, Keep America Beautiful Beach Sweep.  Co...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-war-on-plastic-were-all-in-this.html

Kirstin holding up her Porthole to the Sea    Cell phones. Though they have become an addiction, POP would not have been able to visually record much of our journey sharing our stories o...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/10/summer-snapshot.html

 Can you locate 4 different species? This turtle was likely well nourished from the 80+ fish species and over 100...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/07/when-plastics-cost-arm-or-leg.html

Many of our followers are keen to our traveling art exhibit zigzagging across the country stopping at various cities along the way. The 25 feet of ocean waves has helped bring awareness to the p...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/04/all-is-not-quiet-on-western-plastic.html

Plastic Ocean Project's traveling art exhibit successfully made it to California in December 2014 where it was on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific. In February it moved to the ARTery in C...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/03/found-other-end-of-rt-40-and-maybe.html

As I laid in my berth (bunk) rocking side-to-side listening to the haunting whisper of howling winds while water swished against the steel wall that separated my sheets from the salty sea, I ...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/02/last-day-of-surface-sampling-in.html

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."                                                         -African Proverb I saw this proverb ...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/01/if-you-want-to-go-fast-go-alone.html

We have very little access to Internet but we do have  Beautiful Nation telling our stories from three mother daughter teams and of course the other 8 who all have mothers that created these peo...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/01/women-water-and-waves.html

This week POP, Inc. will be joining Beautiful Nation Project’s leg with Pangaea Explorations, sailing from Tortola, British Virgin Islands to Turks and Caicos. And we just got word that One Mo...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2015/01/this-week-pop-inc.html

POP Inc.'s art exhibit at the Fort Fisher Aquarium, NC What a rocking October for Plastic Ocean Project, Inc.  As of October 1st our traveling art exhibit arrived in California making it's ...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2014/11/rock-o-ber-from-art-van-to-hurricane.html

When we signed on to do our fifth year of sampling in Bermuda we had no idea that this year we would have an opportunity like no other. We were provided the chance to sample beaches before and a...

http://theplasticocean.blogspot.com/2014/10/hurricane-gonzalo-stirs-up-sea-and.html