After a 45-day trip out to the North Pacific Gyre, often referred to as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the crew from the Ocean Voyages Institute pulled 96 tons of trash out of the water.
SAUSALITO -- The pile of trash the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean just got smaller.
The haul included a variety of types of waste, including a lot of derelict fishing equipment, household goods, single-use plastics and more. "One thing that we encountered out there was just a great amount of consumer plastics. Toothbrushes, bottle caps, all those types of things -- they ended up thousands of miles out into the Pacific," MacLean said.
Mary Crowley, the founder and president of the Ocean Voyages Institute , says the plan is to repurpose, recycle, and upcycle everything the team pulled out of the ocean.She says the OVI is looking to expand its at-sea cleanup efforts.
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