Pellets wash up on shores of Great Lakes

Preproduction Plastic Pellets, also known as knurdles, are the raw material that is used to manufacture virually all plastic products. Oceangybe was collecting samples of these around the world for the Pellet Watch program in Japan. Recently a large number washed up...

Shocked by garbage

Well, the wind has been down all day and the seas quite calm so, despite being far south of the gyre, we decided to try out our borrowed Algulita Foundation garbage manta trawl. Just to see if we could get the deployment figured out and see if there were any changes...

More information on Plastics and our Oceans

Interested in garbage, recycling and our oceans ? I am lying here on the coach recovering from ear surgery after surfing in cold Canadian waters for too long and have had time to search/surf the internet and have come across some incredible interesting...