01/13/2026
🌊 Join us for a powerful night of film + conversation!
Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District is hosting a special screening of the award winning documentary Ripples of Plastic on Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 7 PM at the Cedar Lee Theatre.
🎟️ Tickets are just $10 and available through Cleveland Cinemas: https://tinyurl.com/4bkb9mpx
Learn more about the film at www.ripplesofplastic.com
After the screening, stick around for a community panel moderated by Cuyahoga SWCD Board Supervisor, Anton Krieger, featuring local leaders working on the front lines of Great Lakes conservation:
• Chris Langer – Director, Ripples of Plastic
• Carin Miller – Cuyahoga Solid Waste District
• Erin Huber – Drink Local Drink Tap
• Eddie Olschansky – Trash Fish
• Scott Hardy – Ohio Sea Grant
Why this matters:
Microplastics (tiny fragments no bigger than a pencil eraser) are entering our waterways at staggering levels. An estimated 22 million pounds of plastic flow into the Great Lakes each year. Lake Erie alone provides drinking water to 11 million people, and some microplastics are small enough to slip through filtration systems and into our bodies and food chain.
The film digs into how microplastics get into the Great Lakes, what this means for ecosystems and public health, and what we can do, individually and collectively, to turn the tide.
Rob Green of Great Lakes Now puts it: “Recent studies suggest that we may each have a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in our brains.”
Sherri Mason of Gannon University reminds us: “There has been a dramatic increase in microplastics within the Great Lakes in the last 10 years, but we still have no regular monitoring for them.”
đź’¬ Come learn, connect, and be part of the solution.
