Student Tribune
Green Tip: Break Free from Plastic Pollution
Join the Sustainability Committee on Monday, October 23 to view the Smog
of the Sea film in the Empire Room. This 30-minute video tells the tale of
plastic pollution in our oceans. In 2016, marine scientist Marcus Eriksen
invited renowned surfers Keith and Dan Malloy, musician Jack Johnson,
spearfisher Kimi Werner, and bodysurfer Mark Cunningham to join him on a
one-week journey through the Sargasso Sea to assess the fate of plastics in the
world’s oceans.
Come see the “truth” of the ocean “garbage patches.”
While most of us imagine some artificial island of plastics that could be
possibly removed from the ocean, the reality is that these patches are just
huge sections of ocean with millions of pieces of plastic floating on or near
the surface. Matthias Egger, the head of environmental and social affairs at
The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit developing technologies to rid the oceans of
plastic told CNN in April 2023, “You
can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those
white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch.
It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you
start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look.”
Penwarden, Ann
Sustainability Steering Committee
10/19/2023