Here is a link to my Diigo. Use the resources to supplement your own research. Use the comment section to share your favorite links. If your links are good, and you share enough of them, I will give you extra credit when you need it.
https://www.diigo.com/list/mleuchtmann/ocean-soup
Claire C.
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http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/?ar_a=1
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/11/the-great-pacific-garbage-patch-poses-new-threat-to-marine-life/
http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/patch.html
Anna Vaclavek
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http://ens-newswire.com/2012/09/26/invisible-plastic-soup-is-harming-ocean-animals/
http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/26/our-oceans-a-plastic-soup/
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/pity-the-oceans-vast-stews-of-plastic-soup/
http://greatpacificgarbagepatch.info/
http://www.rtcc.org/micro-plastic-%E2%80%98soup%E2%80%99-the-oceans%E2%80%99-hidden-threat/
Dianna Cohen: Tough truth about plastic pollution (TED talk)
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Marine Pollution: The Sources and the Effects
http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/envfacts/facts/marinepollution.htm
Invisible Plastic Soup is Harming Ocean Animals
http://ens-newswire.com/2012/09/26/invisible-plastic-soup-is-harming-ocean-animals/
How to Get Rid the Seas of “Plastic Soup”?
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/pity-the-oceans-vast-stews-of-plastic-soup/
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/clean-up-garbage-patch.htm
Deletehttp://greenliving.nationalgeographic.com/statistics-pollution-pacific-ocean-20311.html
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics/index.html
http://www.takepart.com/oceans/plastic-pollution
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8225125.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-205_162-6398470.html
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http://www.surfrider.org/programs/entry/rise-above-plastics
Deletehttp://www.linkedin.com/groups/Earth-Day-Ocean-Soup-4153147.S.109657141
Deletehttp://www.oceansentry.org/lang-en/menu-news/environment/3898-more-oceans-swamped-by-plastic-soup.html
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/plastic-soup-threatens-pacific-ocean.html
Lies You've Been Told About the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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The Plastiki Expedition
http://www.theplastiki.com/
The Worlds Largest Dump: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jul/10-the-worlds-largest-dump
Great Pacific Garbage Patch a Bigger Worry Than Tsunami Debris
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/great-pacific-garbage-patch-tsunami-debris.html
Study: Plastic in Great Pacific Garbage Patch Increases 100-fold
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/05/09/11612593-study-plastic-in-great-pacific-garbage-patch-increases-100-fold?lite
Oh by the way Mr. Leutchmann, Sydney and Nick helped me compile these websites so they can use this post for extra credit as well. I give them permission.
Deletehttp://www.rodale.com/chemicals-plastic
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/06/will_my_plastic_bag_still_be_here_in_2507.html
http://www.amiiko.com/world/waste
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Nila: 6A
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http://www.oceanriver.org/MarineDebrisWithDivers.php
http://www.plasticoceans.net/
http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html
http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/plas
http://www.environmentalistseveryday.org/publications-solid-waste-industry-research/information/faq/municipal-solid-waste.phptics.htm
http://recycling-guide.org.uk/facts.html
Stephanie Zhang
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Two TED talks: http://marinebio.org/oceans/ocean-dumping.asp
http://www.nrdc.org/oceans/plastic-ocean/
Very interesting website: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090820-plastic-decomposes-oceans-seas.html
Isabel Dyke
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http://www.takepart.com/oceans/issues
http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/patch.html
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2011/06/swirling-seas-of-plastic-trash/
http://seapics.com/feature-subject/environment/ocean-pollution-pictures-001.html
http://sciengsustainability.blogspot.com/2013/03/garbage-patch-in-oceans.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/capt_charles_moore_on_the_seas_of_plastic.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/dianna_cohen_tough_truths_about_plastic_pollution.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/sylvia_earle_s_ted_prize_wish_to_protect_our_oceans.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/roz_savage_why_i_m_rowing_across_the_pacific.html