General/Technical Information
Clean Up
| Clean Up Australia |
| Keep Australia Beautiful
Keep Australia beautiful combines research, education, community action and awareness and behaviour change measures to 'Keep Australia Beautiful"
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 | International Coastal Cleanup
All year long, organizations and individuals across the globe take part in Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup to remove trash and debris from the world's beaches and waterways, identify the sources of that debris, and change the behaviors that allow it to reach the ocean in the first place.
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Litter
| QLD Litter Prevention Alliance
The QLPA website includes resources and information about litter in Queensland.
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| Buttfree Australia
Butt Free Australia is an environmental product stewardship organisation that focuses on cigarette butt litter and the impact that is has on the environment.
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| Victorian Litter Action Alliance
VLAA have lots of information and resources regarding the issues and prevention of litter.
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Marine Debris
| | Algalita Marine Research Foundation
Charles Moores research and education organisation focusing on marine debris
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| 5 Gyres
Together with partners, Pangaea Explorations and Algalita Marine Research Foundationm, 5 gyres organise research expeditions to the 5 sub-tropical qyres, inviting scientists, journalists and other sailors to join the crew.
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| Ocean Care Marine Debris Education Kit
Hands on activity with before, during and after exercises that can be differentiated to suit the interests and developmental levels of individual classes, aimed at students from year’s seven to nine. There is some potential for cross-learning area integration.
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| | The Plastiki
Discover more about The Plastiki, a boat made of 12, 000 plastic bottles travelling the world to raise awareness about the issues of waste and plastics in our oceans.
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| The Great Garbage Patch
Think beyong plactis, learn more about plastic pollution.
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 | Greenpeace
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Report - Plastic Debris in the World's Oceans
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| | Plastic Pollution Coalition
Plastic Pollution Coalition provides a platform for strategic planning and coherent communications; increases awareness and understanding of the problem and sustainable solutions; and empowers action to eliminate the negative impacts of plastics on the environment, wildlife, marine life, and human health.
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| | Surfrider Foundation
Find out what the surfrider foundation is doing to combat the issue of marine debris. |
| The Friendly Floatees' World Tour
On January 10 1992, a container holding almost 29,000 plastic bath toys spills off a cargo ship into the middle of the Pacific Ocean and breaks open. The unsinkable toys, which were en route from Hong Kong to Tacoma (Washington), include a lot of iconic yellow rubber ducks that have since been caught up in the world’s ocean currents and continue turning up on the most improbable shores.
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| Fly in the Face- Art for a Change
Flyintheface is the webspace of Fran Crowe, it’s about creating: sometimes a scene; hopefully waves; and occasionally something beautiful.
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Wildlife
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