Gyre Cleanup Project

We are about cleaning up The North Pacific Gyre

We are doing something about the largest ecological disaster in history. By starting the largest cleanup in history. Join with us now.

Members

  • roland roland
  • Matthew Stewart
  • Matthias
  • Rachael Montague
  • benjamin a hearst
  • Matthew McDonnell
  • Nick Drobac
  • Jacobo Bibliowicz
  • Gina Cavuoto
  • Darin Lang
  • Freelea
  • Richard Sundance Owen
  • Barbara Tuxworth
  • ecliptic
  • Tiffani C McCoy
  • Kimber

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Do you have skills to share on this project?

If you have skills to share around this enormous collective challenge, please feel free to go to our site at www.gyrecleanup.org and fill out the form there. Mahalo!
 

Welcome To the Gyre Cleanup Community

Aloha! Thank you so much for your caring about the state of our planet and our oceans. As you may know, there is a plastic wasteland the size of Texas and 300 feet deep in a swirling area of the North Pacific ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre. There are 9 such gyre's on the planet, and the others have not even to our knowledge been checked out to see if they are in the same condition. With 90% of the world's fishes gone from overfishing and pollution, and conditions such as this in our oceans, it is clear to many of us that action must be taken. This is why Rich Owen founded the Environmental Cleanup Coalition. We are currently in our infancy, working toward creating solutions to this epic challenge co-created by us all. The time is now, and this group is for all of us who care, to post our ideas, any research or additional activity around the Gyre, any inspirations, media, links and/or quotes we discover, so that we can begin to build resonance and awareness around the need to handle this very large challenge. Thank you!

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benjamin a hearst

how do we clean it up? 14 Replies

Started by benjamin a hearst in Plastic Remediation Discussion. Last reply by Rachael Montague Jan 27.

Rachael Montague

How did the Gyre get Here? Where is all the trash coming from? 2 Replies

Started by Rachael Montague in Plastic Remediation Discussion. Last reply by Rachael Montague Jan 27.

Tyler Vega

Networking 6 Replies

Started by Tyler Vega in Plastic Remediation Discussion. Last reply by roland roland Jan 19.

Videos On The Gyre



Blog Posts

Larry

"Plastic in the Ocean"



Ocean Reef Restoration Team

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Our Mission: Coral reef restoration and removal of toxic plastic from the oceans.

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Goals:

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1. Remove the toxic plastic in order to reduce the known toxic effects on… Continue

Posted by Larry on March 8, 2009 at 5:54pm

Paul S Mamakos

Cleanup Solutions

bio - remediation

example: infusing the ocean areas with plastic eating microbes:
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http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/2008/05/16-year-old-discovers-plastic-eating.html
http://news.therecord.com/article/354044

... Next, Burd tried mixing his most effective strain with the others. He found strains one and two together produced a 32 per cent weight loss in his plastic strips. His theory is strain one helps strain two reproduce.

Tests to identify the strains found strain two was Sphingomonas bac… Continue

Posted by Paul S Mamakos on January 22, 2009 at 5:00pm

Paul S Mamakos

Funding

Who's funding this operation?

Is it a non profit?

Are there fundraising efforts underway? Music benefit concerts. $1 donation coupons in grocery stores?

Posted by Paul S Mamakos on January 21, 2009 at 9:22pm — 2 Comments

Paul S Mamakos

taking action

It would be good to see ways that people can and are taking action on the plastic.

For example, companies that do make biodegradeable packaging to step forward and post their products here. And better ways to encourage local foods, and better handling of trash.

Posted by Paul S Mamakos on January 21, 2009 at 9:19pm — 2 Comments

Latest Activity

Matthew Stewart Bothered by my own inaction in the world, as the garbage piles up.
yesterday
Matthew Stewart and Matthias joined Gyre Cleanup Project
yesterday
Matthias updated their profile photo
on Sunday
January 29
According to Aquarius Systems (who manufactures trash skimmer boats for the city of New York), the trash skimmers would have to be transported out to the Gyre on an ocean freighter, then lowered into the ocean at the work site (using the freighter’s…
January 27
Benjamin, The first group that comes to mind is Earth Justice. Their website is http://www.earthjustice.org/ I'm sure they could give us some good advice, refer us to a lawyer, or make our lives really easy and do a probono lawsuit. We could use a…
January 27
Rachael, I think you are on the right track. We need good attorneys working on regulating cruise ship waste and just suing the plastic industry in general to get them to help finance an education campaign and expedient gyre cleanup! Now where do…
January 27
I think a lot of money is needed for this project. Ideally, we could sue some of the major contributors to the Gyre for cleanup fees. I've heard that cruise ships have contributed up to 20% of ocean trash. They should help pay to clean it up. The US…
January 26

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