Sentences with phrase «trash gyre»

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

Though it sits just south of the swirl of the Great Pacific Trash Gyre, Midway is a paradise.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

This rubbish - strewn patch floats within the North Pacific Gyre, the center of a series of currents several thousand miles wide that create a circular effect, ensnaring trash and debris.

There's plastic trash littering «the Bay of Bengal, the Mediterranean Sea, the coast of Indonesia, all five subtropical gyres; coastal regions, enclosed bays, seas and gulfs.»

The gyre has actually given birth to two large masses of ever - accumulating trash, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches, sometimes collectively called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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

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.

This year, the machine will bring back its first collection from the North Pacific Gyre, which has about 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic trash swirling around inside it.

In other paintings like Gyre (2014) a fish leaping from the frothing sea inhaling plastic household objects is a reference to the vast trash vortex in the North Pacific.

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.

Or the fish jumping from the sea in Gyre (2014), either inhaling or vomiting the stream of household trash in which it swims.

In addition to that, they are also working with 5 Gyres, to keep a daily report of their position and what they see, such as marine life, trash, birds etc..

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

Contrary to what many people believe, there are no visible islands of trash anywhere — even if some areas, the gyres, accumulate higher densities of plastic pollution.

As part of this collaborative initiative, 5 Gyres will offer envelopes to beach clean up participants, so they can send found pieces of polystyrene trash to congressional representatives in Sacramento — where this year legislators voted against SB - 705, a statewide polystyrene ban.

The boats can be retrofitted to deal with any environmental disaster at sea where it's difficult or dangerous to send human workers: The original vision — pre-Deepwater — was for the boats to head the Pacific Gyre and pick up trash in nets, because it seems that no human is ever going to lift a finger to clean it up.

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.

The gyre has actually given birth to two large masses of ever - accumulating trash, known as the Western and Eastern Pacific Garbage Patches, sometimes collectively called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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.

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

But that doesn't mean that the output of trash is the same,» says Marcus Eriksen, co-founder of the 5 Gyres Institute.