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Sunday’s top of the scroll: Inventors take aim at Pacific Ocean ‘garbage patch’: Group hopes to capture tons of ocean debris

Posted by: Maven on May 23, 2010 at 8:07 am

From the North County Times:

“Three longtime fishing buddies will head to the North Pacific this summer hoping to return with an uncommon haul: a barge full of trash from one of the ocean’s most polluted spots.

San Diego inventor Rich Hebert and his partners, retired metal shop teacher Roger Taylor of San Marcos and Pacific Tugboat Services owner Ted Griffith of Encinitas, will travel 1,000 miles across the ocean to the North Pacific gyre —- a Texas-sized vortex between California and Hawaii where plastics from the world’s continents have converged in a kind of “trash soup.”

Scientists have said that in parts of the gyre, degraded plastic particles outnumber plankton, and abandoned fishing nets drift, accumulating flotsam.

Once they reach the gyre on Griffith’s tugboat, the three partners, in cooperation with the San Francisco-based environmental organization Project Kaisei, will experiment with ways to remove debris from the ocean, creating, in effect, a marine waste management system. … “

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May 23, 2010 · Filed Under Oceans & Beaches

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