Sentences with phrase «ocean trash gyre»

Have you ever wanted to see an ocean trash gyre for yourself?

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Seattle - based oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who has been tracking huge gyres of trash in the ocean for two decades and runs the Beachcombers» Alert website, thinks the majority of tsunami debris will reach U.S. shores as early as October 2012.

Indian Ocean Garbage Patch There are trash vortices in each of the five major oceanic gyres.

The patch is in an area of ocean between California and Hawaii called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre — a kind of swirling dead end for Pacific currents, which have been depositing floating plastic trash there for decades.

Imagining artistic practice as a sedimentary process of material and social transformation (akin to a trash heap or scrap yard), Alli works in installation, performance, image - making and visual research to rummage in the aesthetics of precarity, collapse, and by extension, the vast formlessness of the Earth's ocean gyres.

Because of ocean currents and winds, a large chunk of the gyre's trash now eventually lands on the shores of the Hawaiian archipelago.

On the heels of the shale gas rush that's swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel - based projects is coming — a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush that environmentalists warn could make smog worse in communities already breathing air pollution from fracking, sicken workers, and expand the plastic trash gyres in the world's oceans.

Growing where the currents of the ocean meet in a spinning swirl, the Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch is a soup of trash that has floated from all corners of the globe.

After experiencing the impact of our consumer society on our environment first - hand during my recent sailing trip with the 5 Gyres project, visiting miles of ocean trash, the question hit me: Why can't we get away from our ridiculous consumption of dispos