The 5 Gyres Project has recently crossed the North Atlantic Gyre and Indian Ocean Gyre.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

It is important that we remove the plastic waste that is washing ashore on islands in the gyres.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The plastic will leave the gyres as long as we stop adding more.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Going to the gyres with boats and barges capitalizes on the public's misconception that there are Texas-size islands of plastic.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Plastic floating in the five sub-tropical gyres of the world, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, are two petroleum disasters.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

You can't go and get the plastic in the five gyres, but you can wait for it to come to you.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Some recent studies have revealed a significant concentration of particles in near-surface waters in areas of mid-ocean accumulation (N Pacific and NW Atlantic gyres).

UNESCO: All Events | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

You cannot clean up the gyres by going to the gyres.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

In time, the five gyres will kick debris onto their shores, at low cost or no cost, low carbon footprint, and no death to marine life in the process.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Goudey, the director of the MIT Sea Grant's Offshore Aquaculture Engineering Center, has devised a system by which giant spherical cages of fish would drift underwater in circular ocean currents, or gyres.

FORBES: Magazine Article