Garbage Vortex Revisited
Saturday, 7. November 2009, 11:06:16
On 27 May 2009 I featured the Pacific Garbage Patch. In an article titled “Project Kaisei: voyage to clean up the plastic vortex” CNN has brought some pictures and a video from an August 2009 voyage to the area.
Apart from the CNN text, I think their dreadful images talk for themselves. The most heavily polluted areas of surface water in the gyre contained six times more plastic than plankton biomass.
A further voyage next year hopes to gather more data and move closer to a practical solution to the ever increasing problem.
PS.
More footage from the Kasei project:
Hat tip “Living the Scientific Life” Blog
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/10/project_kaisei_2009_intro_from.php
See also: http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/10/project_kaisei_scripps_oceanog.php
Apart from the CNN text, I think their dreadful images talk for themselves. The most heavily polluted areas of surface water in the gyre contained six times more plastic than plankton biomass. A further voyage next year hopes to gather more data and move closer to a practical solution to the ever increasing problem.
PS.
More footage from the Kasei project:
Hat tip “Living the Scientific Life” Blog
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/10/project_kaisei_2009_intro_from.php
See also: http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2009/10/project_kaisei_scripps_oceanog.php
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53north # 11. November 2009, 02:24