Bonnie Monteleone, the director of science, research and academic partnership at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, will discuss her award-winning, international educationthrough- art project from 7 to 9 p.m., March 12, at the Camden County Environmental Center, in Cherry Hill. The exhibit, titled “What Goes Around, Comes Around: What You Didn’t Know is Hurting You,” comprises a compilation of plastics collected by Monteleone during her scientific expeditions of three plastic ocean gyres. These circular oceanic surface currents become filled with plastic debris, like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the north central Pacific Ocean.

The traveling art exhibit and lecture is an initiative to bring awareness to the problems of one-time use plastics, why it matters and what can be done about it. The solution is easier than most people think.

Location: 1301 Park Blvd., Cherry Hill. To preregister for the free event (required), visit TinyUrl.com/PlasticOcean-SCH. For more information, call 609-238-3449 or email [email protected].