Sentences with phrase «gyre garbage»

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To figure out how much refuse is floating in those garbage patches, four ships of the Malaspina expedition, a global research project studying the oceans, fished for plastic across all five major ocean gyres in 2010 and 2011.

The rest floats; much of it ends up in gyres and the massive garbage patches that form there, with some plastic eventually washing up on a distant shore.

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An island of floating plastic garbage twice the size of Texas is trapped within the current gyre in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean.

Such materials are hardly impermanent — as the vast garbage patch drawn into the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre makes clear — but as sculptural media they are fragile.

The definite answer on whether this is the case or if the garbage patch in the South Pacific is smaller than previous ones will come when we reach the center of the gyre in a couple of days.

Although one may think that's a good thing, it doesn't really mean that the South Pacific is cleaner but that the currents in this part of the ocean create a tighter gyre and thus the garbage may be more concentrated.

A study called Floating marine debris surface drift: Convergence and accumulation toward the South Pacific subtropical gyre [PDF] also suggests that this gyre is a closed loop, and that the garbage that enters it doesn't leave, which could be the cause of not seeing so much debris floating.

The demonstration vessel seen below is our «Proof of Concept» boat that has shown we can harvest plastic and other waste from the 5 garbage Gyres in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and (via third parties) recycle that waste into clean diesel fuel for shipping and new plastic products.

We talked with Scripps Institution marine biologist Miriam Goldstein, who has just completed a study of how plastic is changing the ecosystem in the North Pacific Gyre, about myths and realities of the Pacific garbage patch.

The garbage patch is known more correctly as North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, 1,000 miles off the Californian coast, and it was discovered that fish are eating 12,000 to 24,000 tons of plastic each year.

It's a region of the North Pacific ocean where the northern jet stream and the southern trade winds, moving opposite directions, create a vast, gently circling region of water called the North Pacific Gyre — and at its center, there are tons of plastic garbage.

For years, scientists have warned that the world's oceans are becoming a plastic soup, with ocean gyres where plastic and other debris build up (also known as «garbage patches») covering a quarter of the earth's surface.

We worry about the Pacific garbage gyre but in fact, 22 million pounds of plastic enter the Great Lakes every year.

The rest floats; much of it ends up in gyres and the massive garbage patches that form there, with some plastic eventually washing up on a distant shore.

That's because while the North Pacific gyre has trash coming from North America, China, Japan and Asia coming to one gyre, the South Pacific has the coast of South America, Polynesia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Australia, which might not be contributing garbage in the same amounts.

In this trip we're heading to the South Pacific gyre, the least explored of the five subtropical gyres (which are rotating oceanic currents that accumulate garbage).

The real deal will come in a few days, when we reach the center of the gyre and get the answer we came looking for: is there a South Pacific garbage patch?