Instead of paint, the colors are composed of 2.4 million pieces of plastic - the estimated number of pounds of plastic that enter the world’s ocean’s every hour!
Gyre is the first image in a mini-series that Jordan is creating about the Pacific Garbage Patch, and is named after the Pacific Gyre, a thousand miles wide ocean current which turns clockwise like a giant slow-motion whirlpool and concentrates tons of the world’s trash.
To counter the growing plastic crisis in Mexico, on Saturday November 1st, WiLDCOAST will launch Mexico’s first every National Coastal Cleanup in more than 100 sites throughout the country
For more information and to register to host a cleanup, contact WiLDCOAST at info@wildcoast.net or go to www.wildcoast/net/sitio and click on the Beach Cleanup section (in Spanish).
The world’s largest landfill is located in the Northern Pacific ocean, in an area of slow moving sea currents called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. It is an oceanic desert, its denizens phytoplanktons but scarce other marine life. Far away from the world’s shipping lanes, its chief ‘flora’ is the massive mass of floating detritus. The size of this mass believe it or not equivalent to that of the continental United States.
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