Want to go deeper? Ocean Voyages Institute has its voyages, data and ways to support.
For Further InformationA sailing nonprofit that has pulled more than 850,000 pounds of plastic from the Pacific Gyre in 10 voyages (nonprofit figure).
Image: NASA (iss073e0257194).
Ocean Voyages Institute (OVI), a nonprofit sailing organization based in Sausalito, California.
Mid-ocean cleanup voyages that recover plastic, from household trash to abandoned fishing nets, then upcycle, recycle and repurpose it.
Sounding the alarm and finding solutions since 2009; 10 cleanup voyages so far.
The North Pacific Gyre between California and Hawaii, expanding across the Pacific Basin.
Ocean plastic entangles marine life and builds up in the food chain, from plankton to great whales.
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In 10 mid-ocean cleanup voyages to the Pacific Gyre, OVI retrieved more than 850,000 pounds of plastic debris. In 2020 it recovered some 340,000 pounds (170 tons) in what it calls the largest open-ocean cleanup in history (nonprofit figures).
Source: Ocean Voyages Institute (nonprofit site)
For Further Information: Ocean Voyages Institute (nonprofit site)
Plastic accumulates in the food chain that ends in the seafood people eat; every net and bag pulled out of the gyre stops that cycle (nonprofit description).
Source: Ocean Voyages Institute (nonprofit site)
Abandoned nets and plastics entangle and kill seabirds, marine mammals, fish and sea turtles; OVI removes them from the open ocean (nonprofit figures).
Want to go deeper? Ocean Voyages Institute has its voyages, data and ways to support.
For Further InformationLinks go straight to the organization. Saving Planets doesn't receive any of the money.