Recent Event Highlights: The unintended consequences of a plastic bag ban - Los Angeles Times, San Diego Inventors Plan Cleanup at North Pacific 'Garbage Patch' - The Log Newspaper, Scientists' Find Hints at Coming Antarctic Garbage Patch - Discovery News, Banning plastic grocery bags - Los Angeles Times, Pacific Garbage Patch Affecting Oregon Coast - Beach Connection, Pacific Garbage Patch Plastic to be Recycled Into Vacuum Cleaners (Video) - Treehugger, and 73 more...
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Garbage Argument: Burn, Bury, or Recycle?TheTyee.caIt's a massive, floating 'garbage patch.' [Editor's note: The Tyee is pleased to weekly showcase the best of the Vancouver Observer, the independent, ...and more »
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Pocket-lint.comPlastic is found in even the most remote seasDailyTechThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch was predicted after Alaska-based researchers obtained results from measuring neustonic plastic in the North Pacific Ocean ...Antarctica Getting Its Own Garbage PatchEcoGeekAntarctica Might Have Its Own Garbage PatchTreehuggerPacific Garbage Patch Could Become Your Next VacuumThe Stir (blog)Global Adventures, LLC -Discovery News -Unthinkableall 42 news articles »
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The unintended consequences of a plastic bag banLos Angeles TimesAre you aware of the Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch and the fact that another "patch" was discovered yesterday (6/27/10). What? You've never heard of the patch? ...and more »
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San Diego Inventors Plan Cleanup at North Pacific 'Garbage Patch'The Log NewspaperIn August, Hebert, Taylor and Griffith will travel 1000 miles to the “Garbage Patch” with Project Kaisei. There, they will attempt several cleanup methods ...
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Scientists' Find Hints at Coming Antarctic Garbage PatchDiscovery NewsYou've heard about the Pacific garbage patch and the Atlantic garbage patch, each a sobering sign of how when we throw things away, they don't go "away" ...
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Banning plastic grocery bagsLos Angeles TimesThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an area of the ocean larger than Texas and thick with floating plastic debris: bottles, bottle caps, bits of packaging ...
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Beach ConnectionPacific Garbage Patch Affecting Oregon CoastBeach ConnectionAt least one beach expert believes the plastics are really the result of a giant garbage patch in the Pacific ocean, called a gyre. ...
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TreehuggerPacific Garbage Patch Plastic to be Recycled Into Vacuum Cleaners (Video)TreehuggerThis would not only reduce the flow of plastics into the garbage patch in the first place and shrink how much plastic ends up in landfills, but also, ...Electrolux to create vacuum cleaners using trash from the Pacific Garbage PatchEcofriend (blog)Electrolux Shows BP How Green Marketing Is DoneWired NewsVac from the Sea: Electrolux's quest to collect the ocean's plastic debris and ...Core77.com (blog)Your Olive Branchall 11 news articles »
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Honolulu WeeklyTidal trash, garbage patchHonolulu WeeklyBeach Environmental Awareness Campaign Hawaii / There's marine debris and then there's beach-goer trash. The difference is that marine debris is a result of ...
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Organic Authority (blog)Our Environment, Our Health and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (AUDIO)Huffington Post (blog)That became very clear when I spoke with Captain Charles Moore, the man who discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch--a floating landfill of garbage that ...Supermarket in DC Bans Water BottlesOrganic Authority (blog)all 2 news articles »
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A look at the floating collection of garbage known as the Plastic Vortex, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
www.discoverynews.com How much trash is in our oceans? And does it look more like a floating landfill or a plastic soup? Anna Cummins, co-founder of the 5 Gyres Project, gives Jorge Ribas the facts about her recent trip into the Atlantic Garbage Patch.
Miriam Goldstein, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, speaks about her research trip to the North Pacific Gyre. Recently, the gyre has become better known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.
www.coastal.ca.gov Visit for an opportunity to volunteer and learn more about the effects of trash in our ocean. Project by Zach Henderson, Eddie Apodaca, Will Ryan, and Freddy Eberhardt. Mr. Adams. Marine Biology. Period 4. Comment! Song: Waiting On the World To Change, John Mayer. All rights go to him for the song.
Have you ever thought about what happens when you litter? Do you know what the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is? Find out answers to your questions and more in this public service message from TRASH (The Recyclers And Saviors of Humanity).
Have you heard there's a solid island of floating garbage in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? infactvideo.com
A group of Scripps graduate researchers recently returned from a 20-day expedition to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a little-studied remote ocean region where plastic debris accumulates. Join Miriam Goldstein, chief scientist on the cruise, and colleagues Pete Davison and Chelsea Rochman, as they discuss the garbage patch, why its there, and how they are exploring and analyzing the problem of plastic in the North Pacific Ocean. Series: Perspectives on Ocean Science [1/2010] [Science] [Show ID: 17802]
Hungry Beast reports on the pacific ocean garbage dump - with help of photographer Chris Jordon. North East of Hawaii human debris from around the pacific gathers in the ocean and on the shores of midway atoll. The affects of this pollution is devastating to the bird and marine population.
www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com While out in the North Pacific Gyre with Project Kaisei and Scripps, SEAPLEX scientist Jim Leichter found a buoy with a barnacle fouling community on it. What are the implications of a community being carried vast distances across the ocean? Project Kaisei helped fund this expedition and Annie Crawley from Dive Into Your Imagination was aboard to document hoping to change the way a new generation views ourocean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.diveintoyourimagination.com Scripps scientist Chelsea Rochman explains how some of the simplest creatures like salps can effect the entire food web. Salps are basically pelagic tunicates. There is a possibility that they could be ingesting plastic in the North Pacific Gyre and passing those toxins on to other animals. See what Chelsea has to say. The SEAPLEX cruise from Scripps and Kaisei were two expeditions. Project Kaisei helped fund two expeditions out to the garbage patch to find solutions to the growing plastic problem facing theOcean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com SEAPLEX scientist Chelsea Rochman talks about the impacts plastics have on the ocean from the point of view of chemicals and pollutants. She specifically talks about Persistent Organic Pollutants, how they accumulate up the food chain, and how they affect us. The SEAPLEX cruise from Scripps and Kaisei were two expeditions. Project Kaisei helped fund two expeditions out to the garbage patch to find solutions to the growing plastic problem facing theOcean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
Project Kaisei's goals and objectives to help bring attention, and solutions, to the issue of marine debris in our ocean. Background information on our organization, and footage from our expedition on the New Horizon, a Scripps Oceanography research vessel, one of two research vessels we sent to the N. Pacific Gyre in August 09. The other being the namesake, 150ft tall ship, the Kaisei.
Is our ocean turning into plastic?
www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Annie Crawley joins Project Kaisei and Scripps Oceanography on the three week SEAPLEX expedition to the North Pacific Gyre, also know as the "Garbage Patch." See what happens when the SEAPLEX scientists find a giant squid! The SEAPLEX cruise from Scripps and Kaisei were two expeditions. Project Kaisei helped fund two expeditions out to the garbage patch to find solutions to the growing plastic problem facing theOcean. Want to do something about this problem? Get the children in your life to love the ocean, give the gift of the ocean today, visit: www.DiveIntoYourImagination.com Type youtube in the notes of your order to receive a free gift!
From August 2-21, a group of doctoral students and research volunteers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego embarked on an expedition aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon exploring the problem of plastic in the North Pacific Gyre. This video was produced for Scripps Institution of Oceanography's FREE, award-winning, explorations e-magazine. SIGN UP for explorations: explorations.ucsd.edu
Did you know we now have an 8th continent! It is made entirely of plastic garbage and its larger than the US State of Texas!
From August 2-21, a group of doctoral students and research volunteers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego embarked on an expedition aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon exploring the problem of plastic in the North Pacific Gyre. This video was produced for Scripps Institution of Oceanography's FREE, award-winning, explorations e-magazine. SIGN UP for explorations: explorations.ucsd.edu
While my colleagues spent the summer exploring the center of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, I worked the edges, the source. In places like Indonesia, El Salvador, California and Honduras the amount of plastic leaving the land, entering the sea and potentially drifting off to far away places is staggering. Along many stretches of ocean and beach the amount of plastic in the water and on the sand is stunning. We often passed more than one plastic bag per second while cruising at approximately 10 knots (5 m/s), as seen in this video. The plastic bags are the black and white objects you see whizzing by in the video. In many parts of the world plastic is imported or manufactured with no plan whatsoever for its disposal or management, so it goes directly into the sea. This is where the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is born.
Researchers say a Texas-sized garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is possibly killing marine life and birds that are ingesting the trash. (Aug. 27)
A huge patch of plastic in the Atlantic Ocean is worrying leading scientists.
Birthday Beach Cleanup Costa Azul Beach, El Salvador 18 July 2009 50 m long by 5 m wide at high tide line 63 Pieces of Plastic Food Wrappers 45 Plastic Candy Wrappers 31 Plastic Bag Pieces 22 Small Hard Plastic Pieces (smaller than one inch) 21 Pieces of Plastic Foam 17 Plastic...
TED talk by Captain Moore on the Pacific Gyre plastic pollution
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Channel 9 KUSI News San Diego featured {Act Globally, Think Universally, Inc-- a 501 (c) (3) } and The GP2 Project--a multi-billion dollar clean-up project to: Clean-up The Great Pacific Garbage Patch and create a Healthy & Vibrant Ocean, Now. The FIRST EVER GLOBAL GREEN EXPEDITION to CLEAN UP THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH is scheduled for March 21st - April 14th, 2010. We are looking for global partners who are interested in sponsoring this expedition, assisting and joining a network of ...
Video about the Great Pacific Garbage patch. There are 3.5 billion tons of trash in the pacific ocean and we have to keep it from growing.
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Oprah shows HUGE Pacific Ocean Floating Trash Patch, shown on HuffingtonPost.com, www.huffingtonpost.com
bitly.com - Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch bitly.com Toxic Garbage Dump - VBS.TV www.youtube.com - Good Morning America Currently, scientists believe the world's largest garbage dump isn't on land...it's in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches from the coast of California to Japan, and it's estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the Earth are swirling in a plastic ...
bitly.com - Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch bitly.com Toxic Garbage Dump - VBS.TV www.youtube.com - Good Morning America Currently, scientists believe the world's largest garbage dump isn't on land...it's in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches from the coast of California to Japan, and it's estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the Earth are swirling in a plastic ...
bitly.com - Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch bitly.com Toxic Garbage Dump - VBS.TV www.youtube.com - Good Morning America Currently, scientists believe the world's largest garbage dump isn't on land...it's in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches from the coast of California to Japan, and it's estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the Earth are swirling in a plastic ...
bitly.com - Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch bitly.com Toxic Garbage Dump - VBS.TV Currently, scientists believe the world's largest garbage dump isn't on land...it's in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches from the coast of California to Japan, and it's estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the Earth are swirling in a plastic whirlpool in the North Pacific. Discarded ...
bitly.com - Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch bitly.com Toxic Garbage Dump - VBS.TV Currently, scientists believe the world's largest garbage dump isn't on land...it's in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches from the coast of California to Japan, and it's estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the Earth are swirling in a plastic whirlpool in the North Pacific. Discarded water bottles from Iowa, takeout containers from New York City, flip-flops from California and plastic debris from the world over make their way from land into storm drains, streams, rivers and other waterways. They are carried out sea, where they get trapped in swirling ocean currents - forming a giant, floating trash dump of an enormous proportion - no matter how you quantify it. It saddens me to have watched these videos and to find out "WE" have known about this for TEN YEARS and seem to be doing nothing! This Plastic Garbage Dump that is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean collecting all the plastic debris and litter from the world is getting bigger every year. It's now so big that it seems that it's too much for us to clean up, and scientists say that the ocean is cleansing itself little by little, evidenced by the plastics on our beaches, but if we continue to litter and not recycle our plastics it will only get worse. If watching these videos doesn't motivate you to NOT litter or ...
bitly.com - Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch bitly.com Toxic Garbage Dump - VBS.TV Currently, scientists believe the world's largest garbage dump isn't on land...it's in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches from the coast of California to Japan, and it's estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the Earth are swirling in a plastic whirlpool in the North Pacific. Discarded ...
bitly.com - Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch bitly.com Toxic Garbage Dump - VBS.TV www.youtube.com - Good Morning America Currently, scientists believe the world's largest garbage dump isn't on land...it's in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches from the coast of California to Japan, and it's estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the Earth are swirling in a plastic ...
bitly.com - Oprah Shines Light On Great Pacific Garbage Patch bitly.com Toxic Garbage Dump - VBS.TV www.youtube.com - Good Morning America Currently, scientists believe the world's largest garbage dump isn't on land...it's in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches from the coast of California to Japan, and it's estimated to be twice the size of Texas. Years of bottles, bags, toys, packaging and plastic trash from all corners of the Earth are swirling in a plastic whirlpool in the North Pacific. Discarded water bottles from Iowa, takeout containers from New York City, flip-flops from California and plastic debris from the world over make their way from land into storm drains, streams, rivers and other waterways. They are carried out sea, where they get trapped in swirling ocean currents - forming a giant, floating trash dump of an enormous proportion - no matter how you quantify it. It saddens me to have watched these videos and to find out "WE" have known about this for TEN YEARS and seem to be doing nothing! This Plastic Garbage Dump that is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean collecting all the plastic debris and litter from the world is getting bigger every year. It's now so big that it seems that it's too much for us to clean up, and scientists say that the ocean is cleansing itself little by little, evidenced by the plastics on our beaches, but if we continue to litter and not recycle our plastics it will only get worse. If watching these videos ...
Our junk fouls the ocean. Time to act! This is the video companion to a story I wrote for Sierra magazine about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Learn more at: theferrisfiles.com ... "Garbage Patch" ocean trash pacific Sierra plastic
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Currently, scientists believe the world's largest garbage dump isn't on land...it's in the Pacific Ocean. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch stretches from the coast of California to Japan, and it's estimated to be twice the size of Texas. "This is the
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Watch it for real this time. Hope you all had a nice holiday.
Christopher Walken visits with Captain Clapton to discuss the large plastic trash island floating in the Pacific Ocean known as The Eastern Garbage Patch Gyre Island
Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he's drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.
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