Photo Gallery (Scroll down for videos)

Recycling-Reprocessing

Plastic Kills Wildlife

Plastic Bottles and Containers

Plastic Bags

Plastic and Styrene Packaging

Ocean Gyres

Ocean and Tidal Zone Plastic Waste

Beach Cleanup

Video Gallery

Plastic causes slow suffering death of whales

Plastic kills sea turtles

Plastic kills sea birds – Strange Days on Planet Earth

Even dolphins become entangled in plastic

Plastic Oceans (killing more than 100 species – including man)

Who wants to Live Forever? Is plastic reaching worldwide tipping point?

Plastic Planet – Plastic Kills in any language

Plastic Ocean – What are YOU going to do to help?

Plastic Bags Slideshow (2.7 MB - PDF)

Citarum River Presentation (638.5 KB - PPT)

Water Disaster Presentation(2.62 MB - PPT)

Ocean of Plastic – Innuit Drummers

Plastic bags and the marine environment

Plastic Bag Pollution

Endocrine disruptors, plastics and breast cancer

The Water Bottle problem

Are plastic bottles safe?

Chemical threat in plastics

Why is plastic packaging toxic?

Can plastic make you fat?

Katie Couric’s Notebook – Bottled Water

How safe is your bottled water?

Bottled water = millions of barrels of oil and waste

Lifecycle and Cost of Plastic Water Bottles

CNN: Most bottled water is tap

Future History – Humorous look at plastic bottle tragedy

21st Century Plastic Bottle Waterfall animation

Next year’s Ocean Research Crossing Adventure will combine the most challenging ultra-endurance event ever attempted and the most important environmental research of the decade.

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Looking Ahead

This coming July, Tom Jones will do a 500-mile SUP event circumnavigating Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. This event will be to benefit the Safe Surfin’ Foundation which protects children from Internet predators, and will also help raise funds for next year’s paddle across the open Pacific from California to Hawaii.

ORCA Expedition to launch April 2013. Tom Jones will standup paddle across the open Pacific from California to Hawaii directly through the Northern pacific Gyre. The accompanying support and research vessel will be the home for a scientific team from one of the world’s leading marine science institutions for more than four months at sea. Check out the events section for details on this incredible ultra-endurance challenge and ocean-breaking research on new threats discovered in plastic waste. Microbes at sea – Friend or Foe?