A celebration of ingenuity, creativity and collaboration that features the talents, skills, passion and perseverance of UCSB students. In just 24-hours, brand new short plays are written, directed, acted, produced and performed.
The period when faculty and staff members have an opportunity to review their health plans and make choices regarding their 2023 benefits, starts at 8 a.m. today.
Take fishing gear, for example, which is known as a major contributor to the ocean pollution problem. According to a 2021 study by The Nature Conservancy and UC Santa Barbara, more than 100 million pounds of plastic from industrial fishing gear wind up as ocean trash each year. A previous study by the World Wildlife Foundation found that fishing gear contributes around 10 percent of ocean litter each year, or somewhere between 1 and 2 billion pounds.
