Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Plastic Pollution Project « GreenLandOceanBlue. Plastic Pacific is a film project-in-progress focused on “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch” – a Texas-sized “plastic soup” just north of the Hawaiian Islands.
Here more than two million pounds of plastic trash are caught in a gigantic vortex of currents, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of seabirds and marine animals and reentering both animal and human food chains. The film is a collaboration between cinematographer Mike Prickett, ESPN director Steve Lawrence, and the Algalita Marine Research Foundation whose founder, Captain Charles Moore, discovered this debacle at sea in 1997. Prickett and Lawrence have won multiple Emmys and other awards, most recently with ESPN’s critically-acclaimed “Down The Barrel.” DESTROYING PLANET EARTH The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Good Morning America.
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