Mary Crowley and the Ocean Voyages Institute team are committed to continuing the education of youth and people throughout the world on the issue of plastics in our global ocean, helping to educate people about how they can be part of the solution, by changes in behavior in terms of refusing throw away plastics, reducing their use of plastics of all types, recycling plastics they encounter and removing plastics from our natural environment through all levels of clean up, be it in their neighborhoods, their parks, their rivers, their beaches, their waterways, lakes and beyond.

Mary and the Institute team will continue to be available to give lectures and be involved in other pollution oriented round tables and other types of discussions and interviews upon request and/or invitation. The particular areas of expertise in plastic pollution in our global ocean stem from 8 years of research expeditions with Project Kaisei in various parts of the Pacific Ocean including the North Pacific Subtropical Convergence Zone, and coastal regions from California to British Columbia, studying marine litter and its impacts on the marine environment.

Video footage will be compiled and translated into multiple languages and available for international distribution, along with photographic imagery from the various expeditions, highlighting the urgency of the major global environmental problem of marine litter.

Through education and information, we can inspire changes in habits and substantially decrease the use of throw away plastics, resulting in a healthier ocean and a healthier planet.