FIRST FLUSH...

First Flush Ben Kay Santa Monica High school teacher and coach of Team Marine documents the problem of single use plastics and litter at the Pico-Cantor Storm Drain in Santa Monica, CA. Heal the Bay’s report card found that Los Angeles has the worst beach quality grades in the state. Film by Jeneene Chatowsky facebook.com/PlasticSeasDocumentary

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Making a difference...

Dan Ross - Drawing Different Lines from Patagonia on Vimeo.

A glimpse into the world of pro surfer Dan Ross as he transitions into the next phase of his life – finding solace in big waves, giving back to the next generation and his 'One Bottle For Life' campaign.

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TEDx - How oceans clean themselves...

Boyan Slat (@BoyanSlat, Delft, 1994) combines environmentalism, creativity and technology to tackle global issues of sustainability. Currently working on oceanic plastic pollution, he believes current prevention measures will have to be supplemented by active removal of plastics in order to succeed. With his concept called Marine Litter Extraction, Boyan Slat proposes a radical clean-up solution, for which he won the Best Technical Design award 2012 at the TU Delft.

Where millions of tons of plastic kill ocean life and poison food chains, Boyan sees opportunities to combat this. While researching ocean plastics during school holidays, he performed analysis on various fundamental topics (including particle sizes, plastic/plankton separation and the amount of plastic in the oceans), leading up to the first realistic concept for cleaning up the world's oceans.

Now a first-year Aerospace Engineering student at the TU Delft, Boyan has always been passionate about applying technology in an original way (at age fourteen he set a world record with launching 213 water rockets), and as an (underwater)photographer and videographer witnesses environmental degradation through his very own eyes.

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