In the meantime, Lowry hopes to expand ocean plastic to other product lines and increase the amount of ocean material in the recycling mix.
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The New York Times recently pointed out that if the vessel breaks apart in the ocean it could send thousands of plastic bottles into the ocean.
An estimated 100, 000 marine mammals are killed each year by plastic in the ocean.
By tackling the harder problem of recycling ocean plastic, Method hopes to raise awareness about the greater need to use post-consumer plastics.
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Once in the ocean plastic photo-degrades very slowly over many years.
Next, Method teamed with like-minded Envision Plastics, which created a new recycling process, combining a minimum of 10 percent of ocean plastic with regular curbside recycled plastic to create higher quality bottles.
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It will remain on display for a month as crew members hold special events aimed at raising awareness of plastic waste in the ocean.
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"Marine life in the ocean are mistaking plastic for their natural food, " Lamson said.
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They feed almost exclusively on jellyfish, and many have accidentally swallowed plastic bags dumped into the ocean, Mast said.
Ms Hill says she was inspired to begin her campaign by her grandson, who told her about a vast floating island of plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean.
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How about if we turned that giant island of plastic trash floating in the Pacific Ocean Gyre into a mirror or shade, or something?
In June 2006 a United Nations Environmental Program report estimated that there is an average of 46, 000 pieces of plastic debris in every square mile of ocean.
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Estimated to be around the size of Texas, this contaminated area of ocean has by some estimates more plastic than food for marine life.
The brief for the Plastiki Expedition was to design a boat made out of plastic bottles that could be sailed across the Pacific Ocean that would draw attention to the problems facing the oceans as well as the kind of solutions that we need to implement.
Inhabitat recently reported on Boyan Slat, a 19-year-old student who designed an ocean cleanup array that he estimates could remove 7.25 million tons of plastic from the world's oceans.
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