Coastal Litter Prevention Resources

Several of you requested information that was presented during our January 17th presentation on Coastal Trash and Fishing Line Impacts on Wildlife.  Following are some links to some of the great references we used.

Keep America Beautiful Litter Fact Sheets

Keep America Beautiful Littering Behavior Study

U.S. National Park Service; Mote Marine Lab, Sarasota, FL- Timefor Garbage to Decompose

Balloons Blow Information

Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup (see the 2014report Turning the Tide on Trash for data)

CBBEP/ TPWD video of trash flowing into Corpus Christi Bay

Texas General Land Office Coastal Cleanup data (we referenced theFall 2014 Top Ten)