{"id":120,"date":"2024-11-19T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:50:07","slug":"events-and-conferences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/events-and-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Events &amp; Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Upcoming Symposium<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Reducing Marine Debris at the Source: Finding Alternatives to Single-Use Plastic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>A Research-to-Application Symposium<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>September 21-22, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Wells Conference Center,&nbsp;University of Maine<\/strong>, <strong>Orono, ME<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">University of Maine researchers and Maine Sea Grant partners will present findings and prototypes developed with support from a NOAA National Sea Grant Marine Debris Challenge Grant. Guest speakers will be invited to share alternative products, reusable food packaging systems, and case studies in developing alternatives to single-use plastic using biodegradable materials from forests, oceans, and agricultural bi-products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More updates coming soon!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming Symposium Reducing Marine Debris at the Source: Finding Alternatives to Single-Use Plastic A Research-to-Application Symposium September 21-22, 2026 Wells Conference Center,&nbsp;University of Maine, Orono, ME University of Maine researchers and Maine Sea Grant partners will present findings and prototypes developed with support from a NOAA National Sea Grant Marine Debris Challenge Grant. Guest speakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2152,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"awhitman","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/author\/awhitman\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/120\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/marine-debris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}