We are in prime beach season. Central Pennsylvanians most often travel to the shorelines in New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. The towns and cities we visit do a good job of keeping the beaches clean and safe.

However, it’s a tough task because beach goers leave behind tons of trash and much of it is plastics.

The organization – Ocean Conservancy – is calling for a ban of five of the single use plastics that are most commonly polluting shorelines.

They include plastic cigarette filters, straws, cutlery, bags and foam foodware.

Ocean Conservancy says the ban of these five would be the equivalent of 1.4 million tons of plastic in the U.S. alone. They say that making less plastic would reduce 7 million metric tons of CO2 emissions every year -- the equivalent of taking 1.5 million cars off the road.

Appearing on The SparkWednesday was Dr. Anja Brandon, associate director of U.S. policy plastics at Ocean Conservancy.

We are in prime beach season. Central Pennsylvanians most often travel to the shorelines in New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. The towns and cities we visit do a good job of keeping the beaches clean and safe.
However, it’s a tough task because beach goers leave behind tons of trash and much of it is plastics.
The organization – <a href="https://oceanconservancy.org/">Ocean Conservancy</a> – is calling for a ban of five of the single use plastics that are most commonly polluting shorelines.
They include plastic cigarette filters, straws, cutlery, bags and foam foodware.
Ocean Conservancy says the ban of these five would be the equivalent of 1.4 million tons of plastic in the U.S. alone. They say that making less plastic would reduce 7 million metric tons of CO2 emissions every year -- the equivalent of taking 1.5 million cars off the road.
Appearing on The Spark Wednesday was <a href="https://oceanconservancy.org/people/anja-brandon/">Dr. Anja Brandon</a>, associate director of U.S. policy plastics at Ocean Conservancy.

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from WITF, host Asia Tabb starts conversations about what’s happening in the world and at home. Share your ideas at https://witf.org/programs/the-spark.

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from WITF, host Asia Tabb starts conversations about what&rsquo;s happening in the world and at home. Share your ideas at https://witf.org/programs/the-spark.

The Spark

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from WITF, host Asia Tabb start the conversations about what’s happening in the world and at home. Share your ideas at https://witf.org/programs/the-spark.

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from WITF, host Asia Tabb start the conversations about what&rsquo;s happening in the world and at home. Share your ideas at&nbsp;<a href="https://witf.org/programs/the-spark">https://witf.org/programs/the-spark</a>.