In June of last year, we posted about the sailing cargo ship Kwai that had collected more than 40 tons of plastic waste and “ghost nets” from the Pacific Garbage Patch. Ghost nets are abandoned fishing gear that continues to … Continue reading
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The sailing auxiliary cargo ship Kwai arrived in Hawaii recently. The ship usually sails a regular route carrying cargo and passengers between Hawaii and the islands of Kiritimati (Christmas Island), Tabuaeran (Fanning) and Teraina, (Washington Island) as well as the … Continue reading
A new study has found record quantities of microplastics in sea ice. The study, published this week in Nature Communications, demonstrates “just how pervasive this type of pollution has become in every last corner of our planet,” says Melanie Bergmann, one of … Continue reading
There is a story that has been floating around the web about a 19 year old Dutch engineering student, Boyan Slat, who, if you believe the claims, has figured out how to clean almost half of the Great Pacific garbage patch in … Continue reading
In the United States there is a chain of supermarkets generally know by the initials – A&P, an abbreviation for “The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.” Unfortunately, we can now also talk of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Garbages Patches, as well. … Continue reading
Last February we posted about a “junkraft” built by Dr. Marcus Eriksen and his team of 15,000 plastic bottles, 30 sailboat masts, an airplane fuselage which they sailed 2,600 miles from Los Angeles to Hawaii to make a point about the … Continue reading