Toxic Garbage Island: An Ocean Full of Plastic by Vice
Geschreven op 18-10-2015 - Erik van Erne. Geplaatst in Afval, Milieu, Water
Vice sails to the North Pacific Gyre, collecting point for all of the ocean’s flotsam and home of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: a mythical, Texas-sized island made entirely of our trash.
Come aboard as we take a cruise to the Northern Gyre in the Pacific Ocean, a spot where currents spin and cycle, churning up tons of plastic into a giant pool of chemical soup, flecked with bits and whole chunks of refuse that cannot biodegrade.
In 1999, Algalita founder Captain Charles Moore became the first to sample the surface waters of the area that has now become known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Algalita’s research team was also the first to develop a standard methodology for sampling, and processing the samples, of ocean surface for micro-plastic debris.
Since this historic voyage, Algalita has conducted many other research voyages to collect plastic pollution samples from around the world. In colloboration with 5 Gyres Institute, Algalita has begun researching plastic marine debris in the North and South Atlantic Gyres, South Pacific Gyre, and Indian Ocean Gyre. See also: The Throwaway Mentality and The 5 Oceanic Gyres
See also: Plastic Soep by Jesse Goossens – Trailer Plastic Planet – Recycled Island: Cleaning our Oceans and Creating a Floating City – The Plastiki Expedition by David de Rothschild sets Sail – The House of Plastic: Prefab Homes made of Plastic Garbage – The Ocean Cleanup: How We Showed the Oceans Could Clean Themselves
Erik van Erne zegt:
27 juli 2017 om 13:31 | Permalink
Humans have created 6.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste in just over 60 years