Posts Tagged ‘plastic vortex’

Turning Marine Debris Into Diesel Fuel

A hat tip to Emily at Oceana’s blog who posted in The Scanner about Project Kaisei. I regularly talk about the problems of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with students, my neighbors, the people in the Publix checkout lane, to kayakers and anglers on the shore of the Indian River Lagoon, and pretty much everywhere [...]

Moore from Algalita on Marine Debris

I heard rumors from TEDsters that there was a talk on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch presented just a few weeks back for the 2009 meeting. Excitingly, TED chose to post the video almost immediately. Capt. Charles Moore’s presentation is short but effective in my opinion. He brings up keys points, like: “Less than 5% [...]