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Anna-Marcus JUNKraft hull w Joel Paschel in hat. Photo credit: Peter BennettSM<a rel="attachment wp-att-85560" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/12/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/anna-marcus-junkraft-hull-w-joel-paschel-in-hat-credit-peter-bennettsm/"></a> You may be familiar with the dreaded <a title="Great Pacific Garbage Patch" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/28/great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-worse-than-we-thought/" target="_blank">Great Pacific Garbage Patch</a> -- a massive soup of plastic debris, flotsam and junk floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Scientists say that ocean currents determine the precise gathering of the junk: the patch lies in the middle of a giant <a title="ocean gyre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_gyre">ocean gyre</a>, or vortex in the sea. There are five major gyres in the world's oceans, and one group, <a title="5 Gyres" href="http://5gyres.org">5 Gyres</a>, is determined to search the remaining 4 for evidence of similar plastic island gatherings....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/'>READ ARTICLE</a>1
A little bit of plastic with your seaweed<a rel="attachment wp-att-85560" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/12/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/anna-marcus-junkraft-hull-w-joel-paschel-in-hat-credit-peter-bennettsm/"></a> You may be familiar with the dreaded <a title="Great Pacific Garbage Patch" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/28/great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-worse-than-we-thought/" target="_blank">Great Pacific Garbage Patch</a> -- a massive soup of plastic debris, flotsam and junk floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Scientists say that ocean currents determine the precise gathering of the junk: the patch lies in the middle of a giant <a title="ocean gyre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_gyre">ocean gyre</a>, or vortex in the sea. There are five major gyres in the world's oceans, and one group, <a title="5 Gyres" href="http://5gyres.org">5 Gyres</a>, is determined to search the remaining 4 for evidence of similar plastic island gatherings....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/'>READ ARTICLE</a>2
Plastic 5 Gyres art<a rel="attachment wp-att-85560" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/12/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/anna-marcus-junkraft-hull-w-joel-paschel-in-hat-credit-peter-bennettsm/"></a> You may be familiar with the dreaded <a title="Great Pacific Garbage Patch" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/28/great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-worse-than-we-thought/" target="_blank">Great Pacific Garbage Patch</a> -- a massive soup of plastic debris, flotsam and junk floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Scientists say that ocean currents determine the precise gathering of the junk: the patch lies in the middle of a giant <a title="ocean gyre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_gyre">ocean gyre</a>, or vortex in the sea. There are five major gyres in the world's oceans, and one group, <a title="5 Gyres" href="http://5gyres.org">5 Gyres</a>, is determined to search the remaining 4 for evidence of similar plastic island gatherings....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/'>READ ARTICLE</a>3
Melted plastic colonized by corals<a rel="attachment wp-att-85560" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/12/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/anna-marcus-junkraft-hull-w-joel-paschel-in-hat-credit-peter-bennettsm/"></a> You may be familiar with the dreaded <a title="Great Pacific Garbage Patch" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/28/great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-worse-than-we-thought/" target="_blank">Great Pacific Garbage Patch</a> -- a massive soup of plastic debris, flotsam and junk floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Scientists say that ocean currents determine the precise gathering of the junk: the patch lies in the middle of a giant <a title="ocean gyre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_gyre">ocean gyre</a>, or vortex in the sea. There are five major gyres in the world's oceans, and one group, <a title="5 Gyres" href="http://5gyres.org">5 Gyres</a>, is determined to search the remaining 4 for evidence of similar plastic island gatherings....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/'>READ ARTICLE</a>4
St. Thomas landfill bulldozer<a rel="attachment wp-att-85560" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/12/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/anna-marcus-junkraft-hull-w-joel-paschel-in-hat-credit-peter-bennettsm/"></a> You may be familiar with the dreaded <a title="Great Pacific Garbage Patch" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/28/great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-worse-than-we-thought/" target="_blank">Great Pacific Garbage Patch</a> -- a massive soup of plastic debris, flotsam and junk floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Scientists say that ocean currents determine the precise gathering of the junk: the patch lies in the middle of a giant <a title="ocean gyre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_gyre">ocean gyre</a>, or vortex in the sea. There are five major gyres in the world's oceans, and one group, <a title="5 Gyres" href="http://5gyres.org">5 Gyres</a>, is determined to search the remaining 4 for evidence of similar plastic island gatherings....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/'>READ ARTICLE</a>5
Plastic boot!<a rel="attachment wp-att-85560" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/12/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/anna-marcus-junkraft-hull-w-joel-paschel-in-hat-credit-peter-bennettsm/"></a> You may be familiar with the dreaded <a title="Great Pacific Garbage Patch" href="https://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/28/great-pacific-garbage-patch-is-worse-than-we-thought/" target="_blank">Great Pacific Garbage Patch</a> -- a massive soup of plastic debris, flotsam and junk floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Scientists say that ocean currents determine the precise gathering of the junk: the patch lies in the middle of a giant <a title="ocean gyre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_gyre">ocean gyre</a>, or vortex in the sea. There are five major gyres in the world's oceans, and one group, <a title="5 Gyres" href="http://5gyres.org">5 Gyres</a>, is determined to search the remaining 4 for evidence of similar plastic island gatherings....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/the-5-gyres-project-searches-the-oceans-for-new-garbage-patches/'>READ ARTICLE</a>6