Cleaning the Plastic from our Oceans

The Clean Oceans Project is an organization trying to rid the ocean of plastic by turning it into a useable fuel.




Their mission is to eliminate plastic pollution from the world's oceans. They plan to clean up the Pacific Gyre by "integrating new and existing technologies to locate plastic marine debris, and develop effective and environmentally sustainable techniques for removing it from the world's oceans". Their technique will be to process the plastic into useable fuel.

We have all seen the reports about whole islands made of floating plastic (and other) debris. Birds and sea life are suffering and dying from ingesting the plastic we create. They are also dying from discarded fishing nets and lines that entangle the marine life and birds.

Below is a graphic from Clean Oceans Project that show some of the statistics and facts in a more visual way.