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Ocean Plastic Debris Education Research Awareness, OPDERA, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about plastic debris in the worlds oceans.

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How Big Plastic Companies Make You Feel Guilty https://t.co/o68Pg3WdDx

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Most plastic packaging is never even collected by waste management and a negligible fraction of the collected packaging is actually recycled. https://t.co/4QEuWJl9pR

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Expedition hauls tons of plastic out of remote Hawaii atolls
The Star-Advertiser in Honolulu released this story of massive plastic waste cleanup. Literally tons of Ghost Nets and plastic waste were collected.

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Web server Engineering – Volunteer
Web server Engineering - Volunteers help ensure business continuity, security, and optimal performance of our presence on the internet.

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How Much Plastic Enters The Ocean, and Where Does it Come From?
Roughly 8 billion kilograms of plastics enter the world’s waters every year. The problem is most acute in emerging coastal economies. The volume of plastic entering oceans can be hard to…

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Which Rivers are Filling the Ocean with the Most Plastic Waste

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Ocean Weather Expertise – Volunteer
Ocean Weather Expertise Volunteers help us on our voyages to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This can be done as an eye-in-sky constantly making comms with our vessel on the high seas. Ocean Weather Expertise Volu…

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Malaysia becomes the number one country to import plastic waste. https://t.co/rTauCNEX0X

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Photo Editing/Identify items in photographs – Volunteer https://t.co/EhSMetcZhz

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Ghost Gear is the Deadliest Form of Marine Plastic Debris. https://t.co/MX1O6DUkIb

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Plastic Waste Fills Ocean Canyons.
Evidence collected from a series of manned submersible dives indicates that the plastic litter items transported and deposited in the deep ocean canyon are most likely controlled by turbidity currents. Here the plas…

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OPDERA Highlighted by The Smithsonian Institute https://t.co/7OQe4osUmu

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The Plastic Cloud https://t.co/GRjrepygPC

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90.5% of plastic waste ever made has never been recycled.
Plastic waste already posed a challenge to the departments working to recycle and reduce pollution as it is not biodegradable. This problem only doubled when major programs' waste collection w…

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People Consume Microplastic Without Knowledge or Consent. https://t.co/1d8lb5rtCt

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Ghost Gear is the Deadliest Form of Marine Plastic Debris. https://t.co/MX1O6DUkIb

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Expedition hauls tons of plastic out of remote Hawaii atolls https://t.co/f2OgRpwqeH

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The world uses 500 billion single-use plastic bags every year. https://t.co/j9ofEI2Q6S

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Ocean Sailing – Volunteer
Experienced Ocean Sailor
Sailing on the high seas to document and research plastic waste in the world's oceans.

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – where did the plastic waste come from?

#GreatPacificGarbagePatch #PlasticPollution
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