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the plastic vortex AKA great eastern garbage patch
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BE SURE TO VISIT collateralnews.tv In the north east pacific ocean, covering an area more then twice the size of Texas, there is a huge deposit of floating plastic. But what is being done about it? |
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Midway Journey: Plastic Pollution & The Oceans
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(CBC 'On The Coast' interview) We are at a mid-way place. On a remote and isolated island in the middle of the Pacific, twelve-hundred miles northwest of Hawaii. This is a moment in time, a chance to witness and understand our role in an astonishing environmental tragedy. This is a place that provides context. Here, reflected in the beauty of the Albatross, is an unfolding horror. Yet it is a horror in which we see our own lives, a snapshot of our impact on the planet that challenges us to consider how to move forward. Join us, on a breathtaking and emotional journey, into the heart of the Pacific, and into the heart of ourselves. Production of the feature film "Midway" continues through 2011. |
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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The Garbage Patch
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over 7 million tons of plastic spanning an area twice the size of texas destroying our oceans and harming our food chains |
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SEAPLEX: Scripps Expedition to the "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch"
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From August 2-21, a group of doctoral students and research volunteers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will embark on an expedition aboard the Scripps research vessel New Horizon to explore the problem of plastic in the North Pacific Gyre. The Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX) will focus on a suite of critical questions. How much plastic is accumulating, how is it distributed, and how is it affecting ocean life? The researchers hope to provide critical, timely data to policy makers and combine Scripps' long tradition of Pacific exploration with focus on a new and pressing environmental problem. This video was produced for Scripps Institution of Oceanography's FREE, award-winning, explorations e-magazine. SIGN UP for explorations: explorations.ucsd.edu |
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Charles Moore: Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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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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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - In The Middle Of The Pacific Ocean! - Part 1 of 4
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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 <b>...</b> |
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Plastic boat completes Pacific voyage
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A boat made almost entirely from plastic bottles has arrived safely in the Australian city of Sydney, ending its 12000km journey across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco where it took off. The voyage was conceived as a way to highlight the perils of plastic in the seas. Al Jazeera's Alison Rourke reports. |
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Synthetic Sea ..... NEW version for 2010
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Captain Charles Moore describes the marine debris research he has conducted on behalf of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation over the past 12 years. Current concerns include the ubiquitous presence of endocrine disrupting synthetics in the marine environment, with pollutant loads being transferred up the food chain to haunt fish, cetaceans and humans. |
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Plastic swallowed by albatrosses in the Pacific ocean - Hawaii: Message in the Waves - BBC
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A Hawaiian student looks at the plastic items found in stomaches of albatrosses, ingested from the Pacific ocean. Interesting video from BBC show Hawaii - Message in the Waves. Visit www.bbcearth.com for all the latest animal news and wildlife videos and watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Earth YouTube channel here www.youtube.com |
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Hungry Beast - pacific ocean garbage dump
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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. |
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Pacific Garbage Dump- Nightline
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Great Pacific Garbage Dump is a graveyard of toxic plastic |
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Riz khan - The great pacific garbage patch
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A look at the floating collection of garbage known as the Plastic Vortex, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. |
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The Plastic Soup Photo Essay
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - In The Middle Of The Pacific Ocean! - Part 3 of 4
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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 <b>...</b> |
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch -In The Middle Of The Pacific Ocean! - Part 2 of 4
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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 <b>...</b> |
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Pt. 1 "Plastic in the Ocean" Interview with Capt. Charles Moore
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For over 10 years, the Algalita Marine Research Foundation has been studying the buildup of plastic debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Sherry Beall interviews Captain Charles Moore, founder, who has documented 6 times more plastic than zooplankton in surface waters of the North Pacific and other crucial information regarding the survival or our Oceans and Marine Life that we are so dependent upon. Want more info? Check this out: www.HealthyPlanetHealthyMe.com www.AtHomeNaturally.com www.Algalita.org |
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The Pacific Ocean Plastic Garbage Dump
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There is an Island of Plastic Garbage in the Pacific Ocean the size of Africa. |
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Voyage to the Plastic Sea with Capt Charles Moore-1.m4v
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The throwaway society has gone global and cannot be contained. The world cannot store, maintain or recycle plastic and all such accumulated stuff in its oceans. This is the message of Captain Charles Moore, founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, who spoke Thursday, Jan. 14 at University of North Carolina--Wilmington. He said the market, including recycling and deposit fees, can do a lot. But it can't fix the natural system in the ocean we've broken, he said. These throwaway plastics take a lot of space and don't biodegrade. Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest. Capt. Moores research on plastic pollution in the North Pacific Ocean focused worldwide attention on the area often referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch a vortex-like concentration of plastic pollution, also known as the North Pacific Gyre. Moore first observed this dynamic ocean-current-caused swirling plastic mass, while sailing from Hawaii to California 12 years ago. "There were shampoo caps and soap bottles and plastic bags and fishing floats as far as I could see. Here I was in the middle of the ocean, and there was nowhere I could go to avoid the plastic," Moore said. From the front row of the university student center theater, Goffinet McLaren said she intends to bring Capt. Moore's message back home to Pawleys Island in Georgetown County, SC, about how plastic causes the loss of sea birds and ocean creatures. McLaren, who helped organize a coastal beach clean-up last <b>...</b> |
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Plastic Plague
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Far out at sea and deep in the nation's heartland, experts are discovering the disturbing consequences of a hitchhiker in our waters---plastic. On the remote islands in the Pacific, a team of researchers is trying to solve the mystery of why albatross chicks with full bellies are starving. Many miles away another team is finding more plastic than plankton in giant garbage patch of ocean called the North Pacific Gyre. Could these two events be related? What's equally worrisome, is the menacing wake plastic pollution leaves on fresh water and consequently, our health. Scientists in Missouri are finding a gender-bending chemical called bisphenol A in local streams who's source may be plastics. They are also finding this nasty compound leaching out of commonly used plastic products (including baby bottles). |
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Double Texas size Garbage "island" in Pacific Ocean P. 4 of 4
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P. 4 Pacific is plastic soup. So much plastic that the water has a high percentage of plastic in it. This spawning from, being a result of and now spawning dumping of garbage and the garbage that blows into the sewer systems. |
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Finding Ron Paul's name on a plastic board in Pacific Ocean
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Finding Ron Paul for President 2008 on a plastic board in Pacific Ocean. |
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Plastic in the Pacific - KQED QUEST
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Imagine every person on earth had 100 pounds of plastic. Thats how much new plastic will be manufactured in 2010. Sadly, much of that will end up in the ocean within a massive area dubbed the Pacific Garbage Patch. Can anything be done to clean it up? |
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Plastic Vortex
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A groundbreaking Scripps voyage led by students helps define a rising threat to the environment caused by an accumulation of plastic and other debris in the North Pacific Ocean Gyre. |
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There is an Island of Plastic in the North Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas
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Some people may stil have no idea about the island of plastic that is growing everyday in the North Pacific Ocean. Please check out www.plasticfreeocean.org and see if there is anything you can do to help. At least be informed about it so that it can influence your decision of how you are going to shop and what products you are willing to buy for your family. The blog that I wrote about trying to use less plastic everyday is here: tselliott.amplify.com |
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