Reducing Plastics
Empowering Youth to Reduce Plastics
Salem Sound Coastwatch has led numerous student-led projects that have been successful in reducing marine debris and initiating positive changes throughout our watershed.
Talking Trash 4 Clean Oceans internships provide participants with a deep dive into the science behind plastic production, consumption, and disposal. The program, offered to high school students in the Salem Sound watershed, encourages students to identify problems associated with marine debris in their community and then tackle the issues.
Past Talking Trash projects include starting the plastic bag ban in Salem and Beverly, painting storm drain murals, creating an anti-plastic marketing campaign, and building cigarette butt and monofilament fishing line disposal bins. Check out the Talking Trash website for more info on previous projects.
Be Part of the Solution!
Not one square mile of surface ocean anywhere on earth is free of plastic pollution from the equator to the poles, from Arctic ice sheets to the sea floor.
"Plastic is so durable that every bit of plastic ever made still exists."
Talking Trash Discovery Booklets
Splash the Turtle is a Talking Trash discovery booklet given to students to take home to share with their families and expand community knowledge.
What you can do to reduce single-use plastics.
Talking Trash 4 Clean Oceans
School to Sea Discovery Days
School to Sea Discovery Days are hands-on activities for 4th grade through high school that help students learn about marine debris and make the connection between trash on the street and the health of the oceans.
