Need a good book to bring to the beach in your canvas bag along with your reusable water bottle?  Co-founder Lisa Boyle recommends this reading list to learn more about plastic pollution.  Please order from this page and Amazon will give us a percent of your purchse price. Also, please share your suggested books on this subject on our Facebook page or by replying to this post.

• Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things, by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie
• Flotsametrics and the Floating World: How One Man’s Obsession with Runaway Sneakers and Rubber Ducks Revolutionized Ocean Science by Curtis Ebbesmeyer and Eric Scigliano
• Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash by Elizabeth  Royte
• Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Royte
• No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process by Colin Beavan
• The Story of Stuff: How our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health – And a Vision for Change, by Annie Leonard
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans by Sylvia A. Earle
• Transforming Cultures: Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability by The Worldwatch Institute
• The Plastic Waste Primer: A Citizen’s Guide by Jeffrey P. Porro, League of Women Voters

For Tweens and Teens

• Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion (Scientists in the Field Series), by Loree Griffin Burns
• Green My Parents: Join the Youth Movement to Seed the Green Economy, by Tom Feegul, edited by Jordan Howard and Adora Svitak and hundreds of kids just like you!

And for the Very Young

• Abigale the Happy Whale, by Peter Farelley
• All the Way to the Ocean, by Joel Harper