Cleaning up
Steve put together a short film (watch it here) that gives some idea of the beach we helped clean last weekend. This little pocket beach south of Portage Head was choked with debris of all kinds and the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers from the sanctuary and the Coast Guard helped to make it … Read more
A Long, hard slog
There are two ways to get plastic out of the ocean. The first – and most effective – is to put less of it in. The second is to remove what is already there. While we would like to see more efforts toward the first, we can do something about the other. Which is what … Read more
Return to Portage Head
By all accounts, the weekend was a major success. On Saturday, we were able to get down to the beach at Portage Head where we’d found the highest concentration of debris of anywhere we surveyed last summer. With was Liam Antrim, of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary and a member of our scientific team. What … Read more
