OCEAN PLASTIC CLEAN UP! OCEAN GYRES : IT'S NOT JUST THE PACIFIC : HERE IS A PROPOSED PROJECT

OCEAN PLASTIC CLEAN UP - OCEAN GYRES IN ALL OCEANS  

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There are 5 swirling ocean garbage patches called gyres. Garbage patches generally accumulate far from any country’s coastline, and it is nearly impossible to track the origin of marine debris. The tiny plastic particles that make up most of the patches are also very difficult and expensive to detect and remove.

1. NORTH ATLANTIC GYRE 

2. SOUTH ATLANTIC GYRE 

3. INDIAN OCEAN GYRE 

4. NORTH PACIFIC GYRE 

5. SOUTH PACIFIC GYRE 

To date no nation has accepted responsibility for cleaning up the ocean’s garbage patches to the extent that they will agree to fund ocean cleaning up operations. Such Agreement could allow a commercial approach to venture capitalists. .....

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DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR HOW TO RECYCLE SOMETHING?

I'm always interested in any ideas or information on how to recycle things, especially PLASTICS, so that we can combat the SEA OF PLASTIC as well as all other forms of PLASTIC POLLUTION!

Please leave a comment, including any links to information you'd like me to read!

THANKS!

Siren

BEACH CLEAN UP - MR. BEAST STYLE - TEAM SEAS ORG

TEAM SEAS ORG - DONATE FOR BEACH CLEAN UPS

The organize volunteer beach clean ups.  For each dollar you donate about a pound of trash is picked up and properly disposed of.

THAMES RIVER CRABS EATING MICROPLASTIC

DAILY MAIL UK ONLINE: SCIENCE THAMES RIVER MICROPLASTIC and CRABS 

EXCERPT: Researchers found that 94,000 microplastic particles - many from larger pieces of plastic broken down - were flowing through parts of the Thames every second.

These also included fibers from washing machine outflows and sewage outfalls - with much of it being swallowed by local wildlife including various crab species.

The density of microplastics in the Thames was higher than some other major rivers including the Rhine in Germany, the Danube in Romania, and the Chicago in the U.S.

JAMES DYSON AWARD INTERNATIONAL WINNERS INCLUDE OCEAN and SEA LIFE SAVVY INVENTORS ! VERY INTERESTING!

JAMES DYSON AWARDS 2020 - official site 

Renewable Energy, ecological solutions...

Go this site and follow the links.  You will find: 

CLOUD OF SEA  - A way to remove plastic microparticles.

Excerpt: Cloud of Sea is a product designed to be hooked onto all boats using ropes.  The product contains an internal rotating filter that can capture micro-plastics in the water.  The system is composed of 4 parts...

WAP = WHALE AIR PONTOON = A way of saving stranded pilot whales

Excerpt: Pilot whales fall to the side during the stranding. When the tide comes in, their breathing hole is under water, they can't breathe and drown after only 15 minutes.  WAP is placed on both sides of the whale, the mat is rolled out on the belly side and the pontoon on the back side is inflated...

Find other inventions that serve the sea, the sea life, water ecology, and refrigeration. 

TINY SEA TURTLE DEAD WITH PIECES OF PLASTIC IN IT"S LITTLE BODY

DAILY MAIL: TINY TURTLE DEAD FLORIDA BEACH - 104 PIECES OF PLASTIC

It would fit in the palm of your hand so this little turtle was stuffed with plastic. 

TEN RIVERS IN THIS WORLD BRING 95% OF PLASTIC INTO OCEANS

DAILY MAIL SCIENCE ; TEN RIVERS BRING MOST PLASTIC INTO OCEAN  By Shivali Best

EXCERPT:  Now a study shows the top 10 rivers - eight of which are in Asia - accounted for 88 to 95% of the total global load because of the mismanagement of waste.
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SUMMER ENDS - SCHOOL BEGINS - REMEMBER TO REUSE and RECYCLE

Those of you who live by a beach probably know that you should not only take home with you anything you brought in, because even beach garbage cans with open lids can become scattered contents, but also take any other refuse you find, in particular glass, metal, and PLASTIC.  Plastic can break down in the waves and against the rocks but into MICRO-PARTICLES that are digested when sea life eats and breathes.

MICROPARTICLES of plastic also make it into the FOOD CHAIN, and HUMANS have been tested and found to have plastic within their bodies.

This is especially serious when found in women's breasts.

It's possible that microparticles and other chemicals (after all plastic is a chemical) are causing CANCER in humans.

If possible, take water to the beach or out with you in containers that are not made of PLASTIC.  Glass does break and the lids can be a problem, but clean water in clean glass containers is preferable to plastic or metal.

Some of my friends have bought reusuable aluminum water bottles.

I know aluminum is also controversial but I believe PLASTIC is the greater problem.

Siren