On many Alaska beaches, plastic washes up faster than it can be picked up. The remote locations and mountains of plastic make Chris Pallister’s clean up work incredibly expensive.
"Gulf of Alaska Keeper"
Coastal Studies marine debris initiative goes beyond the classroom
The Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies will wrap up a one-year grant aimed at teaching Kenai Peninsula classrooms about marine debris.
Once America’s darling, now plastics are foreign villain on Alaska shores
In Prince William Sound, for example, Montague Island’s shoreline has 30 tons of plastic debris per mile, according to Chris Pallister of Gulf of Alaska Keeper.
How much debris litters Alaska’s beaches?
Thanks to funding from the government of Japan, plans are being made to pick up hundreds of tons of plastic marine debris that has been gathered from Alaska beaches
Tsunami debris clean up is slowed by huge volume, rugged terrain
The state is planning an aerial survey this spring to figure out how much new debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami has arrived on Alaska’s shores.