Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating island of garbage in the Pacific Ocean, found between California and Hawaii. The garbage island is formed from floating debris, plastic bottles, etc. Find more news and articles about the Great...
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a floating island of garbage in the Pacific Ocean, found between California and Hawaii. The garbage island is formed from floating debris, plastic bottles, etc. Find more news and articles about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch here.
About a thousand miles off the coast of California, in the great blue Pacific Ocean, there is a flotsam of plastic that covers hundreds, possibly thousands of miles. It’s called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (and various iterations on the theme). It is largely governed by the gyre in the North Pacific Subtropical Zone, which is a fancy term for a bunch of clock-wise-circulating ocean currents that converge in this moderately stationary part of the ocean. It appears to migrate north and... Read Full Story
I found this interesting article about the mountains of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean and thought I would share it with you. If this problem is this big in the Pacific Ocean, what about trash being dumped in our local rivers, streams and lakes?
Most of the outdoors men and women I know, respect our waters, fish habitats, environment, etc. but there are many visitors to our great outdoors who do not respect out precious natural resources. I know this and have seen it countless... Read Full Story
An ancient Filipino proverb translates: "The garbage you throw away will return to you." (Proverbs are creepy, reeking of unwanted truth.) Shot on the Midway Atoll, American photographer Chris Jordan photographed decaying baby Albatross bodies, revealing bits of bright trash - mostly plastic - where digested food should have been; the nesting birds are dying as their parents unknowingly feed them our trash. The Midway Atoll is just a small spit of sand and coral in the north Pacific and a... Read Full Story
A tawny stuffed puppy bobs in cold sea water, his four stiff legs tangled in the green net of some nameless fisherman. It's one of the bigger pieces of trash in a giant patch of garbage-littered water — one that's bigger than Texas — where most of the plastic looks like snowy confetti against the deep blue of the north Pacific Ocean. But most of the trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has broken into bite-sized plastic bits, and scientists want to know whether it's sickening or killing... Read Full Story
Some extraordinary -- and upsetting -- pictures show directly how our waste impacts our environment
by Pete Davies
Chris Jordan uses his photographs to illustrate the complexities and enormities of the problem with have with our consumption and its impact on the environment. Until recently his work focused on a series called Running the numbers which attempts to give some meaning to all the huge statistics we hear about our environmental problem. Such as…
Two million plastic... Read Full Story
Researchers say a Texas-sized garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is possibly killing marine life and birds that are ingesting the trash. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Thursday announced findings from an August expedition to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, about 1,000 miles west of California. The patch is a vortex formed by ocean currents and collects human-produced trash. Among researchers' findings were confetti-like plastic shards and barnacles clinging to water... Read Full Story
A woman named Mary Crowley is making an effort to clean up the garbage that has accumulated in the Pacific Ocean by starting a non profit, Project Kaisei . See CNN article here . P.S. Still have no heat in my building and now no hot water either. On the bright side, my roommate met our next door neighbor who's lived in the building for 7 years. She said this is the first time something like this has happened which gives me hope that it won't happen again, but also makes me wonder if I brought... Read Full Story
Midway by Chris Jordan
Have you ever seen 500 people stunned into a complete and devastated silence?
Photographer Chris Jordan shared a sobering tale of his journey to Midway Atoll with the Poptech conference on Thursday, where he captured horrifying images of baby birds killed by plastic from the Pacific Trash Gyre . The crowd, which had been listening to a day of Big Ideas, was dumbstruck.
If you’ve never heard of the Gyre — also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the... Read Full Story
Midway by Chris Jordan Have you ever seen 500 people stunned into a complete and devastated silence? Photographer Chris Jordan shared a sobering tale of his journey to Midway Atoll with the Poptech conference on Thursday, where he captured horrifying images of baby birds killed by plastic from the Pacific Trash Gyre . The crowd, which had been listening to a day of Big Ideas, was dumbstruck. If you’ve never heard of the Gyre — also known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the Pacific... Read Full Story
By now most of us have heard about the horrendous mountain of plastic swirling around in the North Pacific Gyre (aka the “ Great Pacific Garbage Patch ” or “ The Horse Latitudes .” ) It’s an area in the Pacific Ocean that earlier generations of mariners avoided with good reason. Topical weather, slow, swirling equatorial currents, and lack of wind made it a grave yard for men and ships alike in the great age of sail. These are the same characteristics that have turned it into a continent... Read Full Story
