Sustainable Westford hosts FREE film of: 'A PLASTIC OCEAN'

Post Q&A with Mark Myles, a Sustainability professional for nearly 20 years. Retired Director of the Education program at Toxic Use Reduction Institute at UMASS Lowell.

If it was happening in one gyre, they suspected it was happening in all of them. But the filmmakers needed experts to prove it. Scientists were brought in at each stage to analyze the findings from one part of the story to add their data to the overall report on the five gyres. In the center of the Pacific Ocean gyre our researchers found more plastic than plankton. A Plastic Ocean documents the newest science, proving how plastics, once they enter the oceans, break up into small particulates that enter the food chain where they attract toxins like a magnet. These toxins are stored in seafood’s fatty tissues, and eventually consumed by us.
By raising this issue we hope to begin a discourse on the problem that will promote and invoke change. We need to recognize solutions that work and come up with others that solve the problem of plastic that is already in the environment. Only through the sharing of information on this issue will the public change policy on how we treat plastic. In partnership with: Westford Recycling Commission, Westford Conservation Trust, Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust, FPCU Green Team & Social Justice & Weston Price Foundation.