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Throwing Plastic In The Ocean; Just Don’t Do It

By On October 7, 2011

This has been a public service announcement from your friends at gCaptain. (Via AWB)

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Plastiki – Catamaran Made of Plastic Soda Bottles

By On July 26, 2010

UPDATE: July 26, 2010 – gCaptain first reported on the Plastitki, a 60-foot catamaran made out of 2-liter soda bottles, over a year ago and we are now happy to [...]

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Garbage Patch – Plastic Island in the Pacific

By On July 6, 2010

With all the recent talk of the Gulf Oil Spill and its effect on the marine environment it is good to take a moment and look at some of the [...]

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Mapped

By On July 2, 2010

(Source: IMC Brokers) In the broad expanse of the northern Pacific Ocean, there exists the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a slowly moving, clockwise spiral of currents created by a high-pressure [...]

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Rubbish Soup – Plastic At Sea

By On February 7, 2008

Bitterend found this great image of so called “Rubbish Soup”. They tell us; “The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world’s largest rubbish dump – is held in [...]

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