Pacific Southwest, Region 9
Serving: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Islands, Tribal Nations
Marine Debris Strategy: Prevention, Reduction & Cleanup
This page provides a text version of the graphic on the Marine Debris home page.
Land-Based Prevention
- Support trash TMDLs & stormwater permit requirements
- Focus on LA Basin, SF Bay Region & Honolulu trash requirements:
- LA - zero by 2016
- SF Bay - zero by 2022
- Honolulu - proposed
- Support key CA initiatives:
- Development of Water Board trash policy
- Implementation of pre-production plastic pellet control program
- Inspection & enforcement
Ocean Assessment & Cleanup
- Prepare Preliminary Assessment Report: Marine Debris in the North Pacific
- Conduct assessments to fill critical data gaps concerning nature & extent of debris, and aquatic life impacts
- Test innovative cleanup technologies
Land-Based Reduction
- Develop "white paper" on economic burden on local government
- Work with stakeholders to implement source reduction of most commonly found debris items
- Inspection and enforcement of pellet transit nodes and/or plastic manufacturing facilities
Outreach
- R9 Website
- Earth Day beach cleanups
- Annual International Coastal Cleanup
- Tsunami Debris Assessment & Response
Partnering
- NOAA Marine Debris Program
- West Coast Governors' Agreement Ocean Health Marine Debris Action Team
- USCG, DoD, USFWS, FEMA
- Interagency Marine Debris Coordinating Committee
- State agencies, municipalities, NGOs & academia
- Others
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