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Lunch & Learn: Plastic Pollution Crisis

Join us for a free, virtual webinar on March 26th at 12pm to learn about the plastic pollution crisis facing Long Island’s beaches, bays, harbors, and estuaries. You’ll hear directly from local organizations working to clean up our beaches, waterways and coastlines!

Plastics and other pollution such as fishing gear, scrap metal, rubber, and glass, don’t break down in the environment. Instead, these materials accumulate in our oceans and bays, and wash ashore threatening our wildlife, degrading beaches and polluting marine ecosystems.

Grassroots cleanup efforts are critical to combating this crisis and Operation SPLASH and Atlantic Marine Conservation Society (AMSEAS) are leading the charge on Long Island!

Come find out –

·       How much plastic do they collect? 

·       What items do they find most frequent?

·       Where is all this litter pollution coming from? 

·       How can we stop it?

WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

Learn how to take action by joining our free virtual webinar on March 26th!

DATE: March 26th, 2026

TIME: 12pm

WHERE: Via Zoom – register here

WHO:

  • Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director, Citizens Campaign for the Environment

  • Rob Weltner, President, Operation SPLASH

  • Rob DiGiovanni, Chief Scientist & Founder, Atlantic Marine Conservation Society