1. Plastic Paradise: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Did you know that nearly all receipts are coated with BPA (a chemical used to make many plastics) and that BPA can quickly contaminate your blood when you handle your receipts? This is just one startling fact I learned from Plastic Paradise: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a 2013 documentary directed by Angela Sun. Sun digs deeper into our reliance on convenient, single-use plastics and the startling threats they pose to ecosystem health, as well as humans. Sun offers ways you can take action now by simply voting with our wallets, buying in bulk, using reusable materials, and getting involved in our communities. You can watch Plastic Paradise here or on Netflix.
At lot of folks have a common misconception that the garbage patches around the world are tangible islands of trash. In actuality, the situation is more accurately described as plastic smog. Rather than an island, tiny bits of microplastics are floating within our ocean gyres. The Smog of the Sea clears the air about this myth and offers ways we can all do our part to refuse plastic in our everyday lives. The documentary features our friends at 5 Gyres and Jack Johnson! You can watch The Smog of the Sea by clicking here.
– Sandra Meola, Communications and Outreach Associate
Join us for our Annual Fall Awards Reception! Honoring: Rally for the Navesink The Honorable Wilda Diaz and Ben Longstreth When: October 24, 2017, 6:30PM Where: Monmouth Boat Club, 31 Union Street, Red Bank, NJ 07701 Featuring an open bar, live music, raw bar, passed hors d’oeuvres, raffle, and beautiful views! Click here for more details and tickets. For Ad Journal information, click here. Read more →
Take the challenge today to help protect, preserve, and restore your local waterways! Read more →
YOU and your community benefit when you are informed by science. From climate change to water quality testing to wetland restoration to green infrastructure, we all profit from the advancements of scientific research and restoration. I’m asking you to make the commitment to protect, preserve, and restore your community by becoming a member today and help to continue our work as leaders of research and restoration in the NY-NJ Harbor. In recent years, because of the support of your community, NY/NJ Baykeeper has implemented the first of its kind plastics pollution report and living shoreline in the Raritan Bay, a Read more →
We welcome you to join us on your local waterway! Whether you’re into ship graveyards, or just want to learn how to kayak, our on-the-water activities offer something for everyone! Free Kayaking June 8, 15, 22 at 5:30pm at the Keyport Waterfront at the intersection of Broad St. and First St, Keyport NJ August 2, 16, and 30 at 6:00pm at the corner of First Street and North Park Ave next to Lentze Marina in Keansburg, NJ No registration required – first come, first served. Kayaks and personal flotation devices (PFDs) will be provided. Participants will kayak in two 30 minute time slots. Guided Tours Perth Amboy, Raritan Read more →
About the Proposed Pipeline Williams Transco has proposed a 23.4-mile pipeline project to expand its existing Transco transmission system to transport natural gas from the Marcellus Shale region through Raritan Bay to New York. If built, the pipeline will disrupt YOUR fishing, boating. and recreational activities! Construction of the pipeline would also disturb 14,000 acres of habitat for clams, horseshoe crabs, fish, and other marine animals. The project is proposed to be completed by the end of 2019. This is a step backwards for our energy policy and the environment by committing the region to more fossil fuel infrastructure projects Read more →
