Garbage man's fight against trash
his return from the 5000km journey from Honolulu to Vancouver with other scientists and researchers visiting the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The evening will include personal accounts from Tim's adventure, a Q&A session and a screening of the award-winninginfo
Adventures from the trash vortex
of plastic each year and about 10% ends up in the ocean, killing marine mammals, fish and corals. Silverwood, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch adventurer, will visit the Coffs Coast on Sunday, March 25th supporting Bellingen Environmental Youth in their questinfo
Bag It at Bellingen
less plastic. Tim has just returned from a research expedition to the North Pacific Gyre - also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Last year he set off for three weeks, sailing more than 5000km from Honolulu to Vancouver with scientists, environmentalists,info
Floating Island
of this effect calls to mind the eddies of water in a flushing toilet. Some of it may even ultimately reach the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," that doughty landmark of our addiction to plastic that festers and chokes a vast reach of the South Pacific. NOAAinfo
Dan Haifley, Our Ocean Backyard: One year later, where is that tsunami debris?
Maximenko said that most of it will mix in with the rest of the smaller bits and pieces of waste in the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" while 5 percent or less will arrive on the shores of Hawaii, British Columbia, Alaska, Oregon and Washington. The center'sinfo
Watching the beach for reminders of Japan
moorings by the tsunami. For the most part, researchers still think the debris from Japan will end up cycling in the "great Pacific garbage patch," but that view is not universal. From the NYT: “I feel like Paul Revere running through town, saying ‘The Britishinfo
Shark feeding frenzy off Australia
animal I've ever seen," he tells all the bar flies. Now you can use this: To make this: What better way to see the Great Pacific Garbage Patch than in a boat made of plastic bottles? The Algalita Marine Research Foundation will The latest idea for sinkinginfo
Bag It
we've bought into so we can feel less guilty about throwing away plastic. Another stop on Jeb's journey is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge suspended accumulation of trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Here, plastic particles outnumber planktoninfo
The Problem With Saving the World
I must have purchased the labor of some migrant worker working under appalling conditions, probably added to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and contributed to the cloud of greenhouse gases that’s slowly baking my planet. And don’t even start on how I feelinfo
Looking for Tsunami Debris on West Coast Beaches
Researchers think most of it will never reach shore and will instead get caught up and broken apart in the “great Pacific garbage patch†a swirling gyre of currents in the middle of the Pacific Ocean known to collect and recirculate floating garbage. But beachcombersinfo