Rising Threat of PPE: Facts, Findings and Solutions for Our Ocean

Thank you to everyone who joined on Wednesday for our Toll-free Town Hall Conference Call with Ocean Conservancy’s Senior Director of the Trash Free Seas® Program, Nicholas Mallos.

Nicholas has been with Ocean Conservancy for over 10 years and he oversees Ocean Conservancy’s global portfolio of work on marine debris and has extensive field experience researching ocean plastics. His research has taken him from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to the remote coastlines of Alaska and Indonesia and post-tsunami Japan. Nicholas has testified before the U.S. Senate on the sources and impacts of ocean plastics, and regularly engages in policy discussions at international fora including the United Nations. He conducted his graduate work at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, and he is based at Ocean Conservancy’s office in Portland, Oregon.

If you weren’t able to make the call, you can find the recording below. And you can access resources mentioned on the call:

1. Help clean up PPE in your neighborhood and record your findings on Ocean Conservancy’s Clean Swell App here.
2. Download Ocean Conservancy’s Pandemic Pollution: The Rise of Plastic PPE report here.

To save the recording click the three dots in the mp3 player and select “download”