“All of the time, the burden for these cleanups is put on the communities,” said Lauren Divine with St. Paul Island's tribal government, as Alaska's coastal residents deal with a rising tide of marine debris.
talks about the impact of marine debris in the Arctic and specifically the impact on sea life.
Marine debris is a never-ending problem for coastal communities like hers. Divine spoke at a marine debris panel at the Arctic Encounter conference in Anchorage last week. “After that week they went home and then a different family went out to their camp over the weekend, and they brought back a table full of [trash] and they asked ‘did you guys even clean the beach?’ That was in a couple of days,” Ivanoff said.of trash from Alaska’s 66,000 miles of coastline.
“There isn’t enough funding available for what is needed to really address the issue,” said Kristina Tirman, the Sitka-based Alaska marine debris manager for Ocean Conservancy, which gives out small grants up to $10,000 to fund cleanup projects.
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