NOAA Ocean Podcast
NOAA Ocean Podcast
National Ocean Service
Alaska: Marine Debris in the Wilderness
15 minutes Posted Jan 28, 2016 at 7:55 pm.
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Alaska—the largest and most remote state in the United States—is filled with wilderness and beauty, and unfortunately with marine debris. With a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined, Alaska finds itself with the greatest concentration of marine debris in our country. In this episode, we learn just how challenging the issue of marine debris can be in the vast wilderness of this state, how the NOAA Marine Debris program is working to solve this problem, and how the key to beating this issue is in the innovation and ingenuity of the community working to address it.