

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Winter Talk - From Sweat Pants to Garbage Patch: What Happens to Plastic in the Yakima River?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Winter Talk - From Sweat Pants to Garbage Patch: What Happens to Plastic in the Yakima River?
Hosted in partnership with Cowiche Canyon Conservancy
February 24, 2026 at 6 p.m.
Kaminski Conference Center, Building #38, 1704 W. Nob Hill Blvd.

Marine plastic pollution is a global ecological problem, but we rarely consider plastic pollution in our own backyard -- in the freshwater ecosystem of the Yakima Valley. Clay Arango, professor of biology at Central Washington University, will share how plastic moves through water and rock cycles, and how local pollution relates to global ecology. Can individual choices help? What can we do collectively to keep river systems cleaner? Arango will answer these questions more in this Yakima Valley College-Cowiche Canyon Conservancy Winter Talk. Arango specializes in stream ecology and, since 2007, has worked with undergraduate and graduate students to learn more about how people affect stream ecosystems by direct and indirect modifications. Recently, he has collaborated with students to learn how global plastic pollution affects our local life systems.

Can't make the lecture in person? Watch the livestream on YVC's YouTube channel.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/yakima/winter-talk-from-sweat-pants-to-garbage-patch-what-happens-to-plastic-in-the-yakima-river/200029418170005
- **Event Categories**: virtual, business, conferences
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Yakima
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: S 16th Ave & W Nob Hill Blvd, Yakima, WA, United States, Washington 98902
- **lat**: 46.58526
- **long**: -120.53036
- **full address**: S 16th Ave &amp; W Nob Hill Blvd, Yakima, WA, United States, Washington 98902

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Yakima Valley College (https://allevents.in/org/yakima-valley-college/4124951)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 24 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** S 16th Ave &amp; W Nob Hill Blvd, Yakima, WA, United States, Washington 98902
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Yakima Valley College
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** virtual, business, conferences
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Winter Talk - From Sweat Pants to Garbage Patch: What Happens to Plastic in the Yakima River? ?
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