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The International Maritime Organization website gives the MARPOL Convention and annexes. These are regulations that are aimed at pollution from ships.
This video explains what MARPOL stands for and why it exists.
The Encyclopedia.com website defines photodegradable plastic and gives both the pros and the cons of photodegradable plastic.
This video describes biodegradable and photodegradable. The video explains that certain plastics end up in landfills and oceans. It also explains that biodegradable plastic is a chemically-created plastic that needs exact bacteria to break down. Photodegradable releases toxic residue and methane gas. More research needs to be done to actually make plastic degradable.
The EPA website gives the mission statement of the EPA and what the EPA does and doesn’t do. There are links to the history, organization chart, facilities, directory, headquarters, etc.
This video talks about the current situation with the EPA and a history of why the EPA is needed. The video shows pictures of the ways things were in the 1970s before the EPA. It points out that we have clean air and water because of the EPA.
The NOAA website t explains what the NOAA is and what they do. There are links to the history, organization, directory, budget, funding, and state pages.
This NOAA Ocean Media Center video explains what the NOAA is and when it started. It describes what the NOAA does.