The Mission

The Plastic Vortex

Project Outcomes and Impact

The Documentary

Background Data

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World Ocean Day

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Further Information

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Contact Details

Project Kaisei in the News

CNN:
Re-use tech can help our oceans recover

TimeOut HK:
Toxic Beach?

What's in the water?

CNN:
Expedition Plastiki

Radio Australia:
Marine Activists raise awareness of plastic vortex

ABC News:
Plastic vortex wreaks havoc on marine life

Fiji TV:
Marine Pollution

Global 3000:
Global 3000

ARD/ W wie Wissen:
Rückschau: Plastiksuppe im Pazifik

CNN:
Visiting the Garbage Vortex

Telegraph.co.uk:
Huge island of rubbish floating off California

Ocean Conservancy Magazine:
The Pacific Garbage Patch: Myths & Realities

KHON 2:
Researchers Call for Clean-Up of World's Largest Garbage Dump

Mad Mariner:
Ocean of Plastic

Coral Magazine:
Voyage into the Plastic Vortex

Apple Daily:
太平洋黑洞

New York Times:
Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash

CRIEnglish.com:
Individual Environmentalism

CNN:
Project Kaisei: voyage to clean up the plastic vortex

Bay and Delta Yachtsman:
Fishing the Waters

Radio Nacional de Colombia:
Masa de plástico flotante amenaza el Pacífico

CNN:
Woman takes on 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch'

San Francisco Gate:
Google Earth profiles 'heroes'

Rolling Stone:
An Ocean of Plastic

Millionaire Asia:
The problem: Our pollution is changing the balance of the sea’s eco-system

Xin Jin Bao:
大洋深处,垃圾冲击我们的眼球(Chinese Version)

UCSD:
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2009/09/28_garbage.asp

Plastic Forever:
http://plasticforever.blogspot.com/2009/09/evidence-from-gyre_04.html

Reuters:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE57R05E20090828?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0&sp=true

BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8225125.stm

San Diego News Network article :
http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-08-27/news/%E2%80%98shocking%E2%80%99-amount-of-plastic-pollutes-oceans

San Francisco Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/inmarin/detail?&entry_id=46186

Plastic Industry Report:
http://pieweb.plasteurope.com/default.aspx?pageid=976543&docid=214110&key=d7tj6vdp43

National Science Foundation:
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115481&org=NSF&from=news

Slashdot:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/05/010238/Expedition-To-Explore-an-Alaska-Sized-Plastic-Island?art_pos=11

Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-liz-thomson/taking-on-the-plastic-vor_b_252576.html

The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/08/05/05greenwire-recyclers-scientists-probe-great-pacific-garba-57979.html?pagewanted=2

Kyodo News:
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Living on Earth:
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=09-P13-00031&segmentID=2

BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8184397.stm

Bloomberg:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=a5yzD_9Ce4EM

San jose Mercury:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12985637?loc=interstitialskip

VOA News:
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-31-voa20.cfm

Time:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914145,00.html

San Diego Tribune:
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/30/1m30trash231552-researchers-launch-study-ocean-gar/?metro&zIndex=140722

National Geographic:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090731-ocean-trash-pacific.html

BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/ciencia_tecnologia/2009/07/090727_1829_basura_lp.shtml

Times of London:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6207231.ece

Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-liz-thomson/planet-ocean-riding-a-gre_b_218493.html

The Telegraph:
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Action Asia:
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South China Morning Post:
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TVB - Hong Kong Prime Time TV Newscast:
http://mytv.tvb.com/news/newsat730/6917/815#page-1

Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/mnEnergy/idUS91417768220090528

ABC:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=resources/lifestyle_community/green&id=6835451

People Daily Online:
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6666995.html

Xinhau News Agency:
http://ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com/2009/05/environment-huge-plastic-vortex-in.html

Google Hosted News:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hrjgT1KiDZJmEkNDedH-0ZXmVb5g
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090525/tsc-voyage-to-the-centre-of-the-plastic-e123fef.html

Yahoo News:
http://www.7days.ae/storydetails.php?id=78591

MNN:
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/voyage-to-the-centre-of-the-plastic-vortex

AFP:
http://dreamschooner.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/voyage-to-the-centre-of-the-plastic-vortex-hey-look-what-we-made/

and many more:
http://www.marinij.com/sports/ci_12492451
http://www.ecopreneur.co.za/2009/06/01/our-oceans-are-turning-into-plastic-are-we/
http://www.canada.com/news/national/search+green+plastic+solution/1641996/story.html
http://bagtheplanet.blogspot.com/2009/05/dan-haifley-ocean-backyard-can-pacifics.html

 

 
 
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