I-SITE teams up with MYX to help save The Great Pacific Garbage Patch!

Message in a Bottle is a water installation created for the 2012 National Service Learning Conference by MYX: Multicultural Youth eXchange and students from New Foundations Charter School in Philadelphia, PA.

Executive Director, Josette Bonafino traveled to the conference where students are invited to fish a factoid-filled plastic bottle out of a pool, retrieve an educational “message” about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and tweet a potential solution to the problem. Each tweeted response automatically removes a piece of marine trash from this I-SITE powered web site, allowing students to symbolically reduce the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Message in a Bottle aims to teach students about the largest problem facing the ocean today and encourage them to act in ways that will reduce marine pollution. We encourage you to do the same!

By simply tweeting @messagebottles your potential solutions to this growing problem, we can help build awareness and you will help to remove the harmful materials from our illustrated Great Garbage Patch.

Message in a Bottle water installation at 2012 National Service Learning Conference