Out of sight, out of mind is not necessarily out of body. That’s because a massive accumulation of plastic debris is poisoning the ocean fish humans are consuming.
Captain Wes of the New Horizon, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography vessel talks about how plastic has accumulated in the North Pacific Gyre and other gyres in the world.
Three weeks after their return from exploring a vortex of floating plastic garbage 1,000 miles off the Pacific coast, scientists working on Project Kaisei are focused on how to clean up the giant garbage patch.
Annie Crawley joined Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Project Kaisei aboard the New Horizon on a 3 week long expedition to the North Pacific Gyre. They collected data to help find a solution to the “Plastic Vortex” forming in our Ocean.
