Gyre Cleanup - Entries in Restoration
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The Gyres Part 4: The Atlantic Ocean Garbage DumpWe've known for a while that plastic trash accumulates at the center of the North Pacific Ocean - a region euphemistically called "The Great Garbage Patch." Researchers have now confirmed there's a similar region off the US East Coast in the North Atlantic, and that's not good news.…
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Notes from the Gyres Part 3: Plastic PoisoningWhy should you care about the 3 million metric tons of plastic in the Great Garbage Patch? Because it looks like toxins from all that plastic are getting into US... via the seafood we eat.…
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Gyres: Unbelievable Documentary on the Great Ocean Garbage PatchStunning footage captured by VBS.TV team shows just how bad oceanic pollution has gotten in this three-part documentary.…
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Notes from the Gyres Part 2: Nurdle SoupWe live in a plastic culture. The material is spectacularly useful, there's no doubt about that. But it never goes away. So we have to get smarter about how we use it, before we drown in the stuff... …
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Notes from the Gyres Part 1: The ProblemThe problems with marine pollution are much bigger than you think. Now, scientists are concerned that our contaminated seas of plastic trash are leaking back into our lives through the seafood we eat. …
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TED Prize Winner Wishes to Solve Oceans’ Crisis
TED Prize winner Sylvia Earle delivers a fantastic presentation. Will she inspire you to pitch in to help save the oceans?…
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To The Gyre
The North Pacific Ocean is a giant graveyard of plastic - a Texas-sized dump that will never go away... unless we make it go away. TENTHMIL says "It's Time... we cleaned up this tragedy".…
