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Hope floats on eco-celebrity?s recycled plastic boat, Plastiki
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 7 days ago
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Sure, the 60-foot catamaran made entirely out of recycled plastic looks majestic enough propped on a wooden pedestal here inside cavernous Pier 31...Not for the 11,000-mile voyage due to kick off next month, out the Golden Gate and across the Pacific...
Tags: David de Rothschild, Plastiki Expedition, De Rothschild, David Roman, recycled plastic, Josian Heyerdahl, Pacific, Thor Heyerdahl, San Francisco, Ocean pollution, Pacific Ocean, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Kon-Tiki, Sailboats, Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, Plastiki
Birds, boats threatened by the Great Garbage Patch
Hong Kong :: China | 7 days ago
Credibility Charles Moore has spent most of the past decade sailing through the Pacific. He could regale you with stories of sublime open-water majesty. Just not anytime soon. "It's a swirling plastic cesspool," says Moore of an area called the Great Pacific Garbage...
Tags: Charles Moore, Pacific Rim, Wayne Sentman, garbage patch, China, Hong Kong, Biological oceanography, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Oceanography, Project Kaisei, Plastiki, Ocean pollution, Pacific Ocean, Waste, Environment
Let Them Eat Plastic
We’ve all seen the Brita commercials outlining the life of a plastic water bottle. “One hour in a gym (or similar situation); forever in a landfill.” But what about, “forever in an oceanic gyre twice the size of Texas.”...
Tags: great pacific garbage patch, trash, garbage, plastic, water bottles, ocean, pollution, green, albatross, conservation
Floating garbage 'killing marine life'
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the floating pile of debris in the Pacific Ocean could be killing off marine life at a shocking rate, a group of scientists from the University of California say. Amongst the usual bottle caps, plastic bags and...
Tags: Great Pacific Ocean, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, North Pacific Ocean Gyre, marine life, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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