Too busy scoping out Lost Weekend’s rad quiver to write down our action alert link? Had one too many of Nick’s hot toddies to remember Governor Cuomo’s phone number? Didn’t have enough warm gear to warrant making it outdoors at all last night?
No worries. We’ve got you covered with a full rewind of last night’s chapter meeting…
Marcus believes plastic pollution is less of a contained garbage “patch,” and more akin to “smog” – floating and spreading across our waterways.
Finally, we had special guests Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen, the founders of 5 Gyres Institute, give a presentation on their research of our ocean’s plastic gyres, or as Marcus put it “the plastic smog” that is rapidly spreading throughout our oceans. We all know how important this issue is. Marcus and Anna are shedding a brighter light on the subject with their research, and taking it a step further by proposing solutions to the plastics industry. Most recently, they kicked off a campaign to ban the use of microbeads — tiny plastic fragments present in lotions, soaps, toothpaste. Sign the petition to get plastic off your face, and out of our waterways today! http://5gyres.org/how_to_get_involved/campaigns-microbead/
Thanks again to everyone who made it out. See you next time!
