Plastic Pollution in the South Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

Posted on September 06, 2010



Here's the latest from Marcus Eriksen aboard the Sea Dragon - plastic in every single sample collected thus far, illustrated above with a shot of trawl #3, a slurry of fish and plastic particles.

Twelve days from Rio de Janiero sailing out on an eastern tack puts us 600 miles south of Ascension Island, a dot…

2009 JUNK Ride

Posted on December 29, 2009

JUNKride will follow two Algalita staff bicycling from Vancouver, Canada to Tijuana, Mexico to share 100’s of samples of the mid-Pacific Plastic soup with educators, organizations and legislators along the west coast of North America.